Getting solar power for homes is more affordable today than 10 years ago.  In fact, many state governments are currently offering tax rebates to people who choose to convert to solar power for homes. 

If installing a photovoltaic system to supply your solar power for homes is too far out of your financial abilities, there are also programs available to purchase your utilities from an accredited green energy supplier.  Green energy suppliers offer only utilities fueled by renewable resources, such as solar electricity, hydroelectricity and wind generated electricity.  However, if you made the decision to switch to solar electricity for your home it is important to determine your electricity needs before you start shopping.

The first thing to determine is how much power you will need from your solar power for homes system.  Different arrays and solar panel set-ups offer different wattage outputs.  Take the time to determine your average daily electricity usage.  You want to achieve a number that includes the entire year and affords for the different amount of energy used during winter and summer months (more lights, heaters, air conditioners). 

When shopping for the right photovoltaic system to supply your solar power for homes definitely research the quality of the product.  A product offering 13% efficiency and a lifetime warranty will be far more valuable than the panel offering 15% efficiency and a one-year warranty.  Ask neighbors, friends and even strangers currently using solar power for homes, to learn more about the differences in systems.  Sufficient time should also be spent interviewing installers and researching solar power for homes manufacturers as well.

A final decision needs to be made as to what kind of solar power fro homes system you would like to use.  There are generally three types of solar panel systems used to supply solar power for homes. 

The first type is a grid-tied system in which your solar panels are tied into your current power meter.  You are using both electricity supplied by your panels and your supply is then backed by electricity from your electric company. 

The second available solar panel system for supplying solar power for homes is a grid-tie with battery backup.  With this system you are collecting electricity from you panels, filling your batteries for emergencies and then the excess is sent back to the electric company through your meter. 

The final system is a stand-alone system.  Very similar to the grid-tied system with battery backup except that you are completely disconnected or maybe never connected to a major utility provider for your area. 

Once you educate yourself on providing your solar power for homes, you are probably ready to start shopping.  Remember that converting to solar power for homes is an investment and you will reap the rewards over time.  Don’t forget the pride you will have with reducing your carbon footprint by converting to solar power for homes.  

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With the rising costs of energy, solar power energy is become more and more of a hot issue. Perhaps you have have wondered how to make windmill or does solar power for the home even make sense?

This short video will show you that a solar power house possible and actually doesn’t have to cost much either.

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Recently I was doing some research about solar power for homes and I found this really interesting article about Japanese homes being sold with pre-installed solar power. This is actually a pretty amazing concept if you think about it because most of us have to install this stuff on our own. Here, you can actually buy the home with the solar power for homes technology already installed!

The whole point of utilizing solar power is to embrace the “go green” motto. This isn’t just about cleaner air and improving the environment, it’s also about replenishing your bank account. Today for a solar powered watt per hour you will pay about $4! There are new technologies being introduced every single day.

In fact, one company has introduced a solar power for homes system called The PV System. This solar power for homes system connects to the nearest power grid; whenever there is a surplus of solar energy being collected at a particular home, it is transferred to the power grid for dispersed utilization and as a way of lowering the grid’s dependence on the hydroelectrically-driven electrical energy production. Being linked to the PV System can keep your prices down as equated to full-fledged solar energy, while at once reducing down the pollution and taking pressure off the power grid system. Some places are designing centralized solar accumulation arrays for small townships or suburban communities!

So built in solar powered panels help to achieve cost saving goals. When excess solar power for homes is generated by the panels, the surplus is sold back to the local power company and homeowners can make a few extra dollars. Inside these solar power pre-installed homes the walls show the mount of electricity the panels are generating and the amount the home is consuming.

Right now I don’t know of any builders in the US that have the same options for solar power for homes pre-installation like Japan offers but I do know that there are companies that are willing to come to your house to install something like this. There are also projects in which you can do on your own. Now in my experience with reading through this information; having a company actually come to your house can be expensive. Whereas if you do it yourself by buying a program or an e-book to help you build your own solar powered generators it costs a lot less, and I mean A LOT less. Here are a few books you might want to check out regarding solar power for homes and building your own generators:

Earth 4 Energy - A complete step-by-step guide. This guide will give you steps on how to form your own DIY solar and wind powered generators and it’s as easy as 1-2-3! This book contains some really terrific additions to make it easy to understand and comprehend, such as step-by-step instructions and illustrations!

Make Natural Power - A great All-In-One guide. This book has been chosen among many “green” favorable Internet sites as the number 2 choice of all the books available out there (earth 4 energy being number 1). This is another easy to follow guide on how to build up your own renewable energy resources.

Home Made Energy - Easy step-by-step methods. Bill Ford is the author of this book and he will teach you a plan that he came up with on how to beat the energy companies at their own dirty games. These energy systems can be implemented into any one’s home for just a few dollars.

Author: This author is a HUGE fan of How to build a solar panel

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After the year we’ve had, it’s no surprise that the Top Ten innovations in solar power for homes mostly relates to making more energy for less money. However, amongst this selection, there are also some very funky ideas.

So, as we bring this incredible year to an end, Go Solar Power For Homes Dot Com brings to you our very own 2008 Innovations In Solar Power For Homes Award.

10/ ‘Hairy’ Thin Film Solar Panels From Nanowires

It was impossible for this development not to make it into the top ten, if only because it is so completely leftfield. Researchers at the uber-cool McMaster University have succeeded in actually ‘growing’ light-absorbing nanowires made of high-performance photovoltaic materials on carbon-nanotube fabric.

What that means in English is that we are now seriously looking at hairy solar panels!

In short, if we can make flexible, affordable solar cells that, within five years, could convert 20 percent of light, then we really have something here. Over time, the researchers suggest that they might expect to achieve 40 percent efficiency. We like the sound of that!

Info via: technologyreview.com

9/ Sunrgi - Making Solar Power Truly Competitive

Sunrgi claim that their system will soon be able to “produce electricity at a wholesale cost of 5 cents per kWh (kilowatt hour).”

How? By concentrating the Sun’s light into extremely efficient solar photovoltaic cells. This is very technical. You really do want to visit the treehugger.com page where they explain how Sunrgi’s Extreme Concentrated Photovoltaics work. It’s so great!

Their patent-pending technology involves everything from dual-axis sun tracking to cooling of the solar cells. Meanwhile, further good news is that the whole system is all set and optimized for mass-production. Bring it on!

8/ 25 Percent Cheaper Solar Panels Anyone?

Meanwhile, researchers at Day4 Energy are hard at work innovating their way to the top. They, more than most, are only too aware that performance in the marketplace is essential for business success.

They are not so concerned with beating solar PV efficiency records in the lab. They are looking more exactly at cutting the cost of solar panels by 25 percent.

How do they do that? By making solar cells that are roughly 18 percent more efficient than their competitors.

They have further good news in that they expect these super-efficient solar panels to be on the market within 18 months.

Info via: technologyreview.com

7/ Towards The Fateful $1/Watt

The race is well and truly on! Apparently there are more than 80 companies presently competing to be the first, the most efficient and the best at manufacturing solar panels with an output that costs less than $1 per Watt. This is the figure considered by most to be the price point at which solar panels, and solar power in general, becomes competitive with coal-burning electricity on the grid.

1366 Technologies are busy creating a multi-crystalline silicon solar panel that is 27 percent more efficient than conventional multi-crystalline silicon solar cells. Its total efficiency is running at 19.5 percent – roughly equal to the more expensive single-crystal silicon model solar cells. Though they have their challenges, not least the number of their competitors, but still, I wouldn’t bet against them.

Info via: cnet news

6/ What Solar Panels Can Learn From Moths

The trouble with silicon is that it is reflective. So light that could be turned into electricity is lost because it bounces away. For some time now, a not altogether successful solution was to apply anti-reflective coatings. Then, some researchers looked at the make up of a moth, and everything changed.

Did you know that moths have extremely non-reflective eyes? This was probably a defense mechanism they evolved against nocturnal predators. Whatever … All you need to know is that because a lot of clever people have gone down this road, suddenly we have panels that lose just 2 percent of the light that hits them – a vast improvement over the 35 to 40 percent reflection rate or previous times?

Info via: physorg.com

5/ Solaria: 90 Percent of the Power from Half The Silicon

In these troubled times, you would want to be the manufacturers of a solar cell that produces 90 percent of a conventional solar panel’s power, while using only half the amount of silicon.

Solaria are justifiably happy to bring to the world a solar cell that slices the silicon into thin strips and spaces them apart so the silicon itself only covers half the panel’s area. From there, a clear molded plastic cover collects all the light from the panel and draws it to the strips of silicon. The whole process is complex but makes perfect sense when you read about Solaria’s innovation.

4/ Japan Races Towards Solar Power Station in Space by 2030

The new race for space has begun in earnest. Only this time it is not about getting people to the moon or Mars. This is about getting solar panels into space. You see, in space there is no shadow from earth, so there we have solar energy 24:7, and it doesn’t even stop for Christmas!

Many people are asserting that whoever gets up there first will be the inheritors of the earth. Just think of all that clean sustainable energy!  It’s hard to disagree. So the U.S.A. and others may want to take note that the Japanese seem to be currently leading this particular space race.

We are talking about a seriously massive project here though – think solar panels that are a kilometers long, weighing more than 10,000 tones. All that with a laser section that might need to be as much as10 kilometers long, with a receiving unit on Earth up to two kilometers long.

(CUE THE DRUM ROLL …)

3/ Turning Infrared Light Into Electricity

Imagine being able to not only use the visible spectrum of the sun’s light, but also to be able to gain energy from the infrared spectrum - solar panels making use of the infrared spectrum of light

Here’s how it works …

Scientists are developing a process where, by adding vanadium and titanium into the basic structure of a solar panel, you can get power from infrared as well as visible light from the sun.
Currently solar cells strike out at around 40 percent absorption limit. By making additional energy from infrared, we should be seeing up to 63 percent.

So, the 2008 Innovations In Solar Power For Homes Award Runner-Up Is …

2/Nanosolar: ‘Printing’ Solar Panels For Big Savings

Based in Palo Alto, California, Nanosolar’s creative team has come up with an innovative technique to make solar film. They simply print CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenium) onto a thin polymer sheet in a process very similar to an old-school printing press.

The savings on silicon are significant such that a Nanosolar solar cell will cost about one-fifth to one-tenth the cost of a standard silicon solar panel.

With investment from France’s EDF and with further interest from the owners of Google, Nanosolar are all set to go into mass production. If you have a few minutes, you can watch a YouTube video all about them. This is really happening, right here right now!

And so, the Winner of The 2008 Solar Power For Homes Breakthrough Of The Year Award is …

1/ Thin Film Solar Power For Homes

Thin film is all the rage. This technology requires less of our planet’s diminishing supply of silicon. It also adds new levels of flexibility and thinness so designers and architects love it.

However, it is essential that thin film is economical viable. So the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) came up with a breakthrough that ensures that thin film solar panels are on the verge of being truly competitive with more established silicon-based panels.

A thin film solar cell has just been rated at 19.9 percent efficiency, in other words, 19.9 percent the sun’s light is converted to electricity by the panel.

This is a new world record and an important milestone. The goal for thin film technology is to match silicon in performance.

Made from copper indium gallium diselenide or CIGS for short, and it looks like you will be hearing a lot more about thin film solar in the near future.

Now, that is a breakthrough worth sending to the top of the class!

Info via renewableenergyworld.com

So that completes our 2008 Innovations In Solar Power For Homes Award. We hope you enjoyed going through it. Maybe you disagree with some of the choices or have better possible entries? What would you say were your 2008 innovations in solar power for homes? Don’t be shy! We would love to hear from you. The comments area below awaits …

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As the creator of a blog about solar power for homes, it is incumbent upon me to present the argument for alternative energy. It is not such a big leap from there into the world of politics. As my valued readers, I hope I don’t offend you by taking this blog off in that direction occasionally, as I did yesterday in covering the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference. Well, I’ve done it again today in focussing on Al Gore. This really is not a left/right, republican/democrat issue. This is something we ALL could get involved in.

For me,  (aside from everyone who ever played for my favourite football team, ) there are very few genuine heroes in the world. Were he still alive, Mahatma Gandhi would be one. Nelson Mandela would be another. For the stand that he takes and the risks that he faces in taking that stand, in my view, Al Gore is fast becoming another true and genuine hero.

Some of you may have seen the following video from TED.com before. Nevertheless, while we are on the subject of Al Gore, I thought it a good idea to hark back to the days prior to the release of his award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Here is a short speech in which, with the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that you can address climate change immediately. He discusses everything from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter “brand name” for global warming.

Click on the text link to watch the video that outlines the 15 ways to avert a climate crisis according to Al Gore.

… and below are the 15 ways to avert a climate crisis spelled out for you if your technology does not allow you to see the movie, or if you are in some parts of the world like China where such movies may not be able to be seen.

15 ways to avert a climate crisis

1. Reduce emissions from your home energy use (better design insulation, green electricity)

2. Reduce emissions from your home and other transportation (buy a hybrid, use light rail, carpools, biking)

3. Buy the most energy-efficient appliances and other products. Be a green consumer

4. Live a ‘carbon neutral’ life. It’s easier than you think. Reduce then offset the rest

5. To find out how, go to http://www.carboncrisis.net. Use the carbon calculator there.

6. Make your business carbon neutral. (It’s not as hard as you might think.)

7. Whether you work in the design, technology or entertainment industries, integrate climate solutions into all your innovations.

8. Invest sustainably in companies and funds that are part of the solution. (Avoid making sort-term decisions with your money.)

9. Become a catalyst of change in your community. Teach others about the climate crisis.

10. Raise awareness by promoting An Inconvenient Truth in your community

11. Send someone to Nashville who can learn how to give Al Gore’s slide show in your community

12. Become politically active – Speak Up! Contact your elected officials. Make Democracy work!

13. Urge the U.S. to join the rest of the world community in capping and trading carbon emissions.

14. Rebranding global warming, use the term, “Climate Crisis”, though the name could easily be “Planetary Emergency”.

15.  Join together to avert the climate crisis. We are one.

These 15 points are as valid today as they were back in 2006 when the speech was made. What other points would you add to the list now? I encourage you to give us your comment below.

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Lao-tzu, the Chinese philosopher, once said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” So let’s dive in. Step number one in getting started setting up in your solar power for homes system is to perform an energy audit. This is where you evaluate the amount of power (in kilowatts/hour or kilowatt hours) that you’ll need in any given day.

You will also need to take into account the site where your home is located. Geographical considerations such as climate, number of peak hours of sunlight per day, number of days of peak sunlight per year, and average rainfall will play a big role in how efficient your solar power for homes system can be.

Any solar power for homes system will need, at the very least, the following components:

•    a collector (usually solar panels);
•    a mount (to put it on);
•    an inverter (to convert 12 volt DC power to 110 volt AC power);
•    a circuit breaker or fuse box and fuses & switches (to regulate the power transferring from the panels to your outlets and/or storage batteries);
•    (optional) one or more storage batteries;
•    (if you get a battery) a charge controller (to keep from over- or under-charging the battery and severely reducing its lifespan);

Once you’ve purchased all the elements of the solar power for homes system you’ve just designed, installation is fairly easy. Be aware thought that the simplicity of installing a solar power system does not necessarily mean you should do it yourself. There are numerous advantages to hiring a professional installer with training in both electrical systems and solar electrical systems including knowing how to set everything up to code standard should the building inspector ever have the need to look it over (for insurance and other legal purposes).

If you find the right solar power for homes professional, they may instruct you in those parts of the installation that you are capable of and allow you to do some of the work yourself, saving you on some of your labor costs.

Even if you don’t decide to have a professional install your solar system, it would be well worth your while to consult one. Show them your design to make sure it’s viable. This will ensure that all the necessary considerations have been taken into account. For example, there is a wide selection of panels, controllers, inverters, and batteries, each one manufactured with different requirements, each one not necessarily interchangeable with the other.

To further minimize the chances of incompatibilities between components in your solar system, consider purchasing all the elements of your set up from the same company and consulting with someone on their sales team that is knowledgeable in solar electric power.

In fact, many companies sell solar kits that contain all the components you would need to set your house up with solar power, with the certainty that all the components are compatible.

Whatever you decide, you don’t have to break the bank to try and supplant your entire power grid reliance with solar power right away and all at once. If you’re interested in availing yourself and your household of the many and various benefits of having solar power for homes system, but are wary of committing to a full-on solar power for homes system, then don’t! You can always start small. Get yourself a single solar panel and see how well that works for you. When you’re ready, you can always add on more panels, batteries and so forth, one at a time, as you can afford it and as your needs evolve.

By Michelle Berry

Author’s Note:
For easy to understand, in depth information about home solar electric systems visit our ezGuide 2 Biogreenlife.

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Hello again!

Just as the title promises, here is a YouTube video in which you can find out all about the joys of solar power cars. This one is not so all-ends-up integrated as our Chinese cousins’ counterpart, but it goes forwards and (maybe not always deliberately) it seems to go backwards too!

Enjoy

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Well, you might argue that the solar power car doesn’t have anything to do with solar power for homes, but I disagree. You can park your solar power car in the garage, cant you? (Have the garage doors open and shut with solar power for homes!)

Besides, any good development to do with solar power anywhere has a knock on beneficial effect on solar power for homes in my opinion. Everything is connected!

So, how would you like to buy a brand new solar power car for $5,500, leave it outside in the sun for a day and a half and then do a 150km road trip without ever stopping at a gas station? No petrol costs. No environmental  issues. Just the journey and the destination!

Well here is some good news. The Chinese company, Zhejiang 001 Group has just produced China’s first ever completely solar- powered automobile.

The compact efficient solar power car uses solar panels on its roof, turning sunshine into the electrical solar energy that moves the solar power car. They say that the solar panels will absorb 95 percent of the solar energy that lands on them, transforming roughly 15 percent of that into electrical current to activate the solar power car.

The solar power car is a response by the Chinese government to head off an oncoming energy crisis. So far the group has only made a few of these cars. They are set to sell for 38,000 yen, roughly US$5,500.

According to their scientists, if you give the car 30 hours of sunlight to feed off, it will give you back 150km of clean good driving, leveling out at 5km per hour of sunlight.

To have a car that will transport me to and from my work every day, while making no carbon emissions, I think US$5,560 would be very reasonable.

Think about it. Given that you would have no fuel costs, how long would it take for you to get your money back? Well, let’s work it out …

According to the AAA’s media site for retail gas prices, the average cost for a gallon of regular today (11/30/2008) is $1.825 and for a gallon of diesel the price is $2.756. (Believe it or not, in mid July 2007 those figures were $4.114 and $4.845 respectively!)

According to  fueleconomy.gov the most efficient car right now is the Toyota Prius at roughly 45 miles per gallon.

So at the very lowest costs, every 45 miles of driving would cost you $1.83. So, I’m no mathematics genius but correct me if I am wrong. You would need to drive your solar power car for just 3,005 miles to break even. After that, all your ‘fuel costs’ would be free.

Don’t know about you, but my car is already at 75,000miles, so I’m thinking that this might be a winner. (Maybe pimping up the look a bit might help though!)

From Sam Deane,
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at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

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Have you ever dreamt of an easy to install, plug n play solar power for homes system?  A solar power for homes system that gives you all the benefits that come with being connected to the grid via your solar system, but without any complicated installation process?

Well, we have located a solar power for homes system that may well be of great interest to you. GoGreenSolar.com’s Plug N Play starter kit system gives you all the benefits of a solar power for homes system that is connected up to the grid, but without any difficult installation processes. You just plug it into any AC outlet, just like any regular appliance. Then, stand back and feel that warm glow in your heart as you watch your meter spinning backwards!

This diy solar power for homes system is perfect for those just starting out. It allows you to capture 250 watts of solar power and thereby massively reducing your electricity bill. This solar power for homes system does all this together with the potential of full expandability.

The 250 watt grid-tie Plug N Play Solar Power Kit is designed as a starter kit for easy installation. How easy? Well, it’s so easy that the inverter can plug straight into your AC electric wall plug! The kit consists of two high quality 130w solar panels and a SWEA Plug N Play inverter. Going forward, the Plug N Play starter system can be combined to form a larger solar power for homes systems according to your requirements.

GoGreenSolar.com’s Plug N Play starter system can reduce your bill and in some cases it might even eliminate higher cost electricity in places that have progressively increasing rates.

One 250 watt solar power kit in average conditions will produce 1 kWh (kilowatt hour) of electricity per day.

Plug N Play Kit Advantages:

•    Easy Install: Just plug it into an AC Outlet
•    Reduce your electric bill
•    A fully expandable system.
•    Grid-Tie without the difficult installation
•    Great kit to “get started with solar power”

To make this offer, we at Go Solar Power For Homes have partnered up with GoGreenSolar.com because they are the #1 consumer focused renewable energy website. They have been established since 2006, and have helped thousands of people just like you to become energy independent.

They have the experience to help and support you as you protect the environment and save money.

Other hot selling products from GoGreenSolar.com include:

•    Solar Panels
•    Complete Solar Energy Systems
•    Complete Wind Power Systems
•    Inverters / Chargers
•    Wind Turbines

To be sure you are clear exactly what an amazing we are offering you, let’s go over the deal once again. The GoGreenSolar.com 250 watt grid-tie Plug N Play Solar Power Kit is designed for easy installation. It’s so easy, the inverter can be plugged right into your AC outlet! The kit consists of two high quality 130w solar panels and a SWEA Plug N Play inverter. The Plug N Play starter system can be combined to form larger solar power for homes systems to meet your requirements, in the future.

Simply click on the following text link to purcahse the Plug N Play 250w Grid-Tied Solar Power Kit.

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(This article follows on from the article entitled, How To Install Solar Power For Homes)

OK. So I want to install solar power for homes. I’ve followed your instructions and now I’ve got myself 20 x 250 watt photovoltaic solar panels, but how does it all work after that?

Well, in order to install solar power for homes, I hope you don’t suffer from vertigo, because you next have to get up onto the roof. Your lovely new panels need to be secured to your roof on a rail mounting system. This should come that with the panels when you buy them. If not, you need to buy this separately. If you have a sloping roof you can either flush mount the panels or have them tilted up to fit.

A word of warning here. Either have an expert fit your panels or be sure to follow the directions carefully. Be especially careful to ensure everything is sealed. While the panels will protect your roofing, fitting them badly can cause leaks when it rains. If you’re not careful, roof leaks can go unnoticed for some time, causing more extensive damage.

If you want to run your solar power for homes completely off grid, you will also need a bank of batteries. Thereby, your solar power for homes would run from solar cells to battery bank to power inverter. If not, then you will be adding solar power for homes to your traditional power use. Off grid, you will need to store enough energy in your batteries in the daytime to power your house at night (when there’s no sunlight running things). Bare in mind that night time traditionally is the time when people like to do things like have hot baths, run washing machines and so forth, so be sure your calculations when planning the installaion of solar power for homes incorporates these extra power demands.

Now, let’s talk about the power inverter. This is an essential bit of kit when introducing solar power for homes. Costing roughly $2000, the average inverter has a 15 year lifespan or thereabouts. The power inverter converts the solar energy and the stored energy in your batteries (if needed) into energy your home can use.

When everything is all connected up right, the solar power comes back to us as direct current (also known as DC). Whether it is fed into a battery for storage or goes straight into use, it will originate as DC electricity. Household appliances require alternative current (also known as AC). So we need something to take the DC power and it turn it into AC power. That is what the power inverter does.

You really should get a qualified electrician to work with you to make everything safe at this point. What we need to do is to run the power from your inverter into your electrical service panel or breaker box. From there, the power can be distributed around your home where it is needed. If you choose to run both grid power and solar power in conjunction, I would add a second box beside your service panel representing your solar panel feed. That way you can switch this feed on or off when needed.

In the day time, if the sun is shining brightly and your energy use is low, if you are not using an off-grid battery storage system, you can feed any excess energy that’s not needed as solar power for homes back to the power company. Many people love the thrill of watching their mater running backwards. This counts as credit against your final bill, but be aware that you will not be able to gain so much credit that the power company owes you money.

Your energy company will buy your power back off you at the rate you buy it from them, but they will pay you up until your net energy bill is at zero. After that, they will continue to take power from you but will not pay you, so don’t go building your solar power for homes system larger than you need, banking on making money in this way! There will always be some charges from the power company, normally amounting to about $10/month, for things like reading your meter and maintaining the grid.

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

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