{"id":5297,"date":"2025-09-07T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:58:08","slug":"weve-saved-almost-e10000-in-a-year-how-much-do-solar-panels-cost-and-when-will-you-see-a-return-on-your-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5297\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve saved almost \u20ac10,000 in a year\u2019 \u2013 how much do solar panels cost and when will you see a return on your investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">They\u2019re exploding in popularity, but is the investment the right choice for the way you live your life?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sharing the jargon-filled specs of your favourite climate toy with your neighbours is the new \u2018keeping up with the Joneses\u2019. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/413eba9f-365c-413c-8f0b-8520ae3950d9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sharing the jargon-filled specs of your favourite climate toy with your neighbours is the new \u2018keeping up with the Joneses\u2019. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Net-Zero Dads. That\u2019s what The Economist dubbed the middle-aged men who obsess over how their heat pumps, electric cars and solar PV panels work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Indeed, sharing the jargon-filled specs of your favourite climate toy with your neighbours is the new \u2018keeping up with the Joneses\u2019. If your next-door neighbour has a Volkswagen ID4 powered for pennies at night by your PV panels, chances are you\u2019ll want to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re exploding in popularity, but is the investment the right choice for the way you live your life?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,2885,6188,61,60],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-climate-change","tag-gabrielle-monaghan","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}