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The following is a simple guide to installing solar power for homes.

Before you take any other action, do your due diligence in seeking out any state or federal government rebates or tax breaks for installing solar power for homes.

Get quotes from at least 3 registered specialists in installing solar power for homes.

Have a chat with them about the options available when installing solar power for homes.

Don’t choose the cheapest (if you can help it). Choose the one you feel most confident will get the job done right.

When adding solar power for homes, we suggest installing the maximum amount of panels that you can fit onto your roof. That way, you get the maximum benefit and the largest possible grant.

Expect to pay about the same as you would for a family car, only unlike the car, your solar panels are guaranteed for 20 years or more.

Give preference to those with previous experience of fitting solar power for homes. There is a lot of tricky electrical work involved, not to mention a number of other specialist components, all of which have to be added carefully to get the solar power for homes to work optimally.

Any additional advanced work with solar power for homes is best left to the professionals.

Be sure you have obtained the relevant local council building and electrical permits before you add solar power for homes. Your city or county building department would be your first point of call to check this.

If you live in a big city, it is likely that your solar power for homes contractor can arrange all this for you.

If installing solar power for homes is not a common occurrence in your neck of the woods, you may need to make a few phones calls and the occasional trip to the local council buildings, but it shouldn’t amount to anything overly excessive.

Be sure to sign a Net Meter Agreement. Thereby, any solar power for homes you don’t make use of could be sold back to the grid for others to use. Yes, you really could get paid by the electrics company for selling them your solar power for homes!

Alternatively, you could arrange for your solar power for homes system to borrow energy from the grid as and when it may be needed.

It is imperative that you have the solar power for homes system fully inspected by qualified professionals. This way you can go to sleep at night knowing that all the wiring is set up safely and effectively. If your solar power for homes system is going to be connected to the grid, your utility company will need to inspect your system before it can be switched on.

Now that you have installed your solar power for homes system, be sure to use energy efficient eco-friendly appliances.

Don’t forget to protect your investment by adding your all-new solar power for homes system to your home insurance policy.

The next thing to do is kick back and relax. As solar panels don’t seem to reduce in efficiency over time, you may be enjoying uninterrupted solar power for homes for 50 years or more!

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I saw an ad to the following items

Chicago Electric Power systems
45 Watt Solar Panel Kit
400 Watt/800 Watt power inverter
Power Inverters 2000W Cont./4000W Surge

What else is needed to get electricity from the solar panels into a home?? How does this work?

I get a lot of sun and would be great to lower my HUGE summer electric bill. Lots of Sun = Lots of Heat = A/C all of the time = $$$$.

Sounds like the system “Liz” described is kind of cobbled together; you want to install a “listed” solar photovoltaic system, and have it installed in a “Code compliant” manner.

Depending on who or where you purchase your system, they will probably offer to install it for you. This is also a good idea, which will include a warranty on the product and the installation. You want the installation to be done correctly; remember, there is no way to turn off a solar collector. Unless covered with a special black-out blanket, the only way to “turn off” a collector panel is to turn it over; a difficult task on a sloping roof.

You will want to know what additional dead load this will place on your roof structure and be sure that the roof system will support it. You will need to check with your local building department to see what Code requirements you will have to comply with. If your home has a truss roof, you will probably need to have a structural engineer verify that it will support the added weight, or design modifications to the roof framing that will allow the installation of the SP System. You may also have to contend with Zoning requirements. Although a variance is always possible, it can be a very expensive proposition.

Good luck.

I am planning on putting solar panels on the roof of my house since i live in phoenix, AZ. We get a lot of sun and it only seems sensible to buy solar panels. A lot of poeple say that it costs like 15-20k to install them.

I was wondering if someone knew if thats true, and how much would it cost and which ones should i install. I am very confused and it seems with the investment i will have to put in it, i should learn more about it.

Thanks to everyone.

I would contact a couple of local solar installers (both for PV and for hot water) and ask them. They'll have a really good idea of what size systems you need, what the cost would be, and how long it would take to pay for itself. Plus, its a good way to start to interview contractors.

Obviously, you can put as little or as much solar energy as you want on your house. To offset a large portion of your electricity use, though, a price of $15,000 to $20,000 doesn't seem out of line. You can also look into solar water heating, which costs much less but only reduces your water heating energy.

I've put a link below that I like for finding solar vendors.

Good luck.

I am very concerned about global warming, and when I grow up (I'm only fourteen) I plan on using solar power to power my home (and I hope that when I grow up it's customary). How efficient is solar power? How many square feet would it take to power a 2,000 square foot home? How much would it cost?

Comment to "Ed" added…

There are two main types of solar power. One produces electricity, the other produces heat.
The electrical type are called "photovoltaics", the heat type are "thermal".
Photovoltaics are not presently very efficient, converting less than 15% of the suns energy to electricity, but by the time you build, they should be better, and cheaper. Thermal solar is much more efficient, especially if you use it to heat your water, because the system runs all year. Home heating is not as good, because winter is not a good time to collect solar. When you design your house, you can take advantage of "passive" solar, which is basically putting a lot of good windows on the south side (or north side if you are south of the equator!) and letting the winter sun shine in. These windows need to be very good, or have an insulator to cover them at night and cloudy days or they will gain energy all day, only to lose all of it at night.

As far as your house goes, it's not so much a matter of how big it is, as how well insulated it is. If you "super insulate" it, you will need very very little heating or cooling energy.
The other cost you will have is for things like computers, refrigerators, TVs, sound systems, lights, fans, cooking equipment and water heating. By picking the most efficient, you can reduce the size of the photovoltaic system you would need, and using solar water heating will handle 50% of the yearly amount with present technology for about $3500. A photovoltaic system to handle all your electrical needs would be quite expensive now, in the $10,000 to $20,000 range, but that cost will continue to fall, and by the time you build it should be closer to $5000.

Hey Ed….I don't know when you bought your system, or what other costs were associated with it…but 6KW systems don't cost 40K anymore…this from Solar Today "A 25-year warranty accompanies the Sharp panels. In 2003, we paid $18,000, which included the eight batteries, two inverters, hardware, 6,000 watts of solar panels and labor."….and King solar sells a "whole house" package for $11,000… but they don't say how big it is. The average home in California uses about 7000 KW per month…so to get that much is going to be more expensive. Our young friend here is thinking ahead. If a house is located right and designed well, then the most efficient appliances and lighting is selected, it would be easy to live well on half that 7000KW.

Good luck, and good thinking!

I am considering buying Earth 4 Energy, but need to know if it really shows you how to INEXPENSIVELY convert your home to solar and wind power.
I have used these “plans” and am very happy with the purchase. For just over $100 I was able to power all my kitchen appliances on wind power. Next I am working on some of the solar plans they detail. I’m a woman with very little mechanical ability and these plans were SIMPLE to follow. I found a pretty good review on someone’s blog at http://earth4energy-solarhome.blogspot.com/

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I was thinking of having some installed on our rooftop and was wondering if it would be worth the cost? The house is located in Sac, Cali. The panels would face the sun 12 months out of the year and in the summer roughly 14 hours of straight sun.

Solar panels are currently selling for between $4 and $6 per watt of rated power output. A typical panel that you might install on your roof would be rated for between 100 and 300 watts and therefore will cost between about $400 and around $1500 or so.

A complete solar power system also needs some other components and will have some installation costs and so the total installed cost of a solar system is typically in the range of $8 - 10 per watt of rated power.

Most home sized systems are rated in the 1000 to 10,000 watt range and therefore cost between about $8000 and $100,000 dollars to install. Many states offer rebates and tax savings that can reduce this cost by as much as 50%.

These systems will typically generate between about $300 and $2500 worth or electricity per year.

Solar panels are expected to last between 30 and 50 years and so these systems will likely generate between $9000 and $120,000 worth of electricity over their life time in current dollars. This will vary widely though based on local electricity costs and may well increase greatly in the future if electricity rates rise.

where can i find solar sail like NASA uses to cover my roof? will it work? where can i learn more about that and plan enough to build it cheap enough to afford?

There are two basic choices for using solar power as a residential supply. One case is to remain hooked to the utility grid, and simply 'dump' the excess generated power back onto grid and use the grid when the solar generation is insufficient for the residential load. The other case is to employ a battery system, whereby the solar unit generates enough for the 'day' usage, and enough left over to charge the batteries for 'night' usage.

At the moment, the available (and reliable) technology is panels, rather than NASA's 'sail'. This is primarily due to the effects of weather on the sail's material, rather than power acquisition aspect. Depending on who you get as a supplier, the cost per panel can be quite low … but covering an area that is 24 feet by 48 feet (like I did on my own home back in 2000), runs around $14000. This also includes the DC-AC conversion panel to allow the solar-generated DC power to be pumped back onto the grid's AC system.

The exposure (compass direction) and angle of the panels with regard to the sun is importnat for optimum power generation; depending on your roofline, you may have to ante up for some sort of support mechanism (I did not).

I didn't bother with battery storage - that is by far the most expensive part of the proposition. Obtaining sufficient battery capability for my power needs would have run me about $45000 … for the batteries alone. If I still wanted to stay coupled to the grid (and the batteries), then I'd need another $15000 for an additional synchronizing panel and other harmonic filtering devices the local utility required.

The batteries that are the best for storage also have a limited life expectancy … something like 5 years, at the outside. Which means that in 5 years' time (or slightly less), I'd have had to obtain another set of batteries … at an addtional $45000 (or whatever the prevailing cost would be at the future time).

You can always plan to make the system operational on a smaller scale as well … simply enough power for a water heater or a well pump, for instance. The scale would drop the price to around $5000 (there's still a chunk for the panels and DC-AC conversions to stay connected to the grid, which you'd have to do if the rest of the house was still grid-powered). Alternatively, you could even go to a small battery storage program for the heater and pump … but it's pretty expensive even then, once you've factored in the recurring charges to obtain replacement batteries.

To decide what is realistic for you in terms of affordability … get a good handle on your electric usage (for each item, on its worst day), and then investigate how much area you'd need to supply that load. Make your energy calculations based on the worst day of sunlight (usually midwinter) … that way you won't be accidentally freezing anything when you least want to.

The return-on-investment figures in the initial (and recurring) costs of the COMPLETE solar setup, and the cost of electricity in your area TODAY. If you're satisified with the time frame required to recoup your initial outlay (my $14000 happened to equate to a 5 year payback), then go ahead.

As someone who has the solar capability installed … check with your local utility for any possible loopholes they have regarding such installations. Then do some digging into panel suppliers (they usually have the whole package available, and most can talk more-or-less intelligently about it, as well as helping you understand your own residential electrical load). Then … make your decision.

Looking to install solar panels in my house.

Wholesale prices for BP solar panels range between $335 for the 40 watts panel to $835 for the 170 watts panel.

Here's a brief listing of wholesale prices for BP solar models:
- BP340J solar panel (40 watts) @ $335
- BP350J solar panel (50 watts) @ $371
- BP375J solar panel (80 watts) @ $504

Right now I'm getting a series of 50 watt (17.5 volts) panels installed in my house. It's a start to reduce dependence on electricity bills and try get some tax rebates as well.