Get your electric bills for the last year. Total them and divide that number by 356 to get your electric usage per day. I am thinking you only get about 3 hours of peak sun in Canada depending where you live. If that is so divide that number by 3 and you have a rough number in wattage to go by. If you use 15 kWh per day (15000 watts) divided by 3 would tell you that you need about 5000 watts in solar panels.
But you got a lot more to think about that then just how many panels you would need. Try putting CF lighting in your home and cook and heat with gas not electric. Build a solar space heater to heat your home with on cold sunny days. Get a wind mill.
Remember an inverter and charge controller and wiring cost a lot as well as the solar panels do.
Shop around a little. You don’t have to buy everything from the same place. Find the lowest prices on solar panels at one place and get the inverter at another place and the charge controller at some other place. I have yet to see any one place have the lowest prices on everything.
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The answer is first you need to know how much power you use. Then how much you need. Then how many panels you have to buy, and what about back up for the time when you need power and there is no sun. Are you going to use batteries, where are you going to keep them could they freeze, and what about all the hydrogen the batteries produce. Is there enough wind to produce power. Do you have running water in your property. Now start shopping for the best price and a good contractor. That is my help to start.
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An average size house with the usual apliances you are looking at about $20,000.00 to set it up properly. You can get an assesment done on your particular needs by anyone that sells and installs systems.
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Get your electric bills for the last year. Total them and divide that number by 356 to get your electric usage per day. I am thinking you only get about 3 hours of peak sun in Canada depending where you live. If that is so divide that number by 3 and you have a rough number in wattage to go by. If you use 15 kWh per day (15000 watts) divided by 3 would tell you that you need about 5000 watts in solar panels.
But you got a lot more to think about that then just how many panels you would need. Try putting CF lighting in your home and cook and heat with gas not electric. Build a solar space heater to heat your home with on cold sunny days. Get a wind mill.
Remember an inverter and charge controller and wiring cost a lot as well as the solar panels do.
Shop around a little. You don’t have to buy everything from the same place. Find the lowest prices on solar panels at one place and get the inverter at another place and the charge controller at some other place. I have yet to see any one place have the lowest prices on everything.
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