Save Money Doing Yourself Solar Panels.
Many users are considering in converting to renewable energy to save money and help the environment. Converting to solar energy is a very good option, there are a lot of benefits. You can take action and you will understand why it is worth the initial low payment.
Users of home solar panel system, have reduced or eliminated electricity bills. Also is possible to sell your own over produced energy to the energy company. But, only by reducing electricity bills, most people feel the satisfaction to have achieve an improvement.
From the point of view to protect the environment, solar panels contribute significantly to reduce fossil fuel emission. You can check that the benefits are many. But, let us take a look at the costs of the solar panels system investment.
The main factor to take into account is how much energy must support your electric system. Many households are fully equipped with washers, dryers, refrigerators and microwaves and water heaters. You can work on the painful task of calculating the wattage needed for all the devices over a full day.
But really there is a better system to calculate your daily consumption, to consult your utility bill. You bill should highlight how many kilowatts (kW) you used for the number of days in the billing period. You need to divide the total kilowatt hours (kWh) by the number of days to arrive at your average daily consumption.
Your next step is to determine just how many hours of sunlight your roof receives on a daily basis. As a rule of thumb, most places receive about 5 hours of sunlight a day. Using that as a guide, let us look at an example. If you monthly kWh is 300 for a 30 day billing cycle, then your average daily consumption would be 10 kWh. As a starting point, a 1 kW rooftop system can generate about 5 kWh per day, remember 1 kW x 5 hours of sunlight. Therefore, a 2 kW system would be enough to satisfy your 10 kWh daily needs.
So what are the costs? A 2KW system solar panels can cost between $17,000 to $19,000. If the wattage increases, so does the price. For example 8 KW system would cost between $48,000 and $ 54,000. On the other hand, once installed, solar panels systems are free and very easy to maintain. Also, more good news is that cost solar panels is decreasing from companies like AVA solar and others, to become available to the residential market.
Further savings can be derived if you buy a do it yourself home solar panel system guide. Whatever route you take, you will take a good option. Make your choose today to begin to save money.
The author is an electrical engineer that has been working more than ten years in the green field applications. He has created some diy guides to build solar panels. And wrote a lot of articles aboutearth for energy.
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