On the western side there is salt in the air. An IP65 cabinet can stand outside under a roof there where an IP21 cabinet has to stay indoors — that saves you giving up a room.
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Lagos is about 90 kilometres from us, a good hour on the A22. That is the furthest corner of the Algarve for us, and still nothing changes about the price: delivery is included, here too. The same goes for Luz, Burgau and Sagres.
The western point sits at the end of the line. The further you go towards Vila do Bispo and Sagres, the longer the spurs get and the more often you are without power in a storm. There a battery turns from a saving into a provision. We will say honestly that 16 kWh gives you about a day of a normal household, not a week.
The old centre inside the walls, and urbanisations with villas around it. For both, the salt in the air counts. An IP65 cabinet may stand outside under a roof here; an IP21 cabinet has to go indoors and so costs you a room or part of the garage. That difference is bigger on the west coast than anywhere else in the Algarve, and it is exactly the difference an internet price comparison steps straight over.
The short answer: a 16 kWh LiFePO4 cabinet costs between two and two and a half thousand euros here excluding VAT, with delivery already included. The long answer is below, with the build-up.
Already have a hybrid inverter that takes LV batteries? Then this is all you need.
€ 2,250 excl. VAT€ 2,768 incl. VAT
€ 141 per kWh, delivered
Felicity FLB48314TG1-H16 kWh51,2 VLiFePO4IP65
Inverter and battery in one shipment, matched to each other and on one pallet.
€ 4,000 excl. VAT€ 4,920 incl. VAT
€ 250 per kWh, delivered, inverter included
Deye SUN-12K-SG05LP312 kW3 fase+ 16 kWhIP65
Freight is in this figure. We deliver straight to your address, anywhere on the mainland. No shipping gets added; only Portuguese VAT of 23% comes on top. If you are a business you reclaim it.
We are based near Loulé ourselves, so we know the Algarve from the inside. But we deliver across the whole mainland.
No, almost certainly not. Nearly every house stays below the threshold where a licence begins. What you do file is a notification, and that is a form.
No salesperson calling back. You get an answer from the man who fitted the set himself.