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Direction my house need to face for solar panels to be beneficial? Any structure that has a roof can be made to work with a solar photovoltaic system. South facing roofs are always best but east and west work fine too. It is just the north face we do not use unless a title up [...]
A typical solar PV panel is between 380 to 420 watts and the smallest system I would recommend is about a 3000-watt system, so that is 7-8 panels. In reality we can build the system any size, but the infrastructure cost to install a PV system is fairly consistent up through about 40 panels, so [...]
Without any doubt it is incumbent on all Americans to take this pandemic seriously and limit exposure to other people, maintain social distancing, and practice good hygiene, but we at ARE Solar have instituted a policy that does all that and still allows us to help the community go green. By using technology we [...]
The basic answer is no. We should get enough periodic precipitation to clean off most of the dirt and dust accumulating on the solar panels. However, if we get one of the those periods of two months without any rain fall with a lot of pollen and dust you may want to hose off the [...]
After a solar PV system is installed very little is ever needed in maintenance. In fact if you have a grid tied solar system that has no batteries, you essentially have a system with no moving parts and no scheduled, maintenance. If you have batteries then you add some maintenance expenses as batteries will need [...]
The installation time to install a typical residential solar PV system is 2-4 days. The permitting and design phase can take up to 4 weeks and getting the utility to install the meter(s) can take another 4 weeks.
Annual storage deployments expected to almost quadruple between 2019 and 2024. The global storage market is set to grow from approximately 4 GW in annual deployments in 2019 to more than 15 GW in 2024, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. Based on analysis from its Foresight 20/20 series, the storage industry is in [...]
The cost of a solar PV system varies based on: the size of the installed system; is it on the roof or ground mounted; are any upgrades to the existing electrical system needed or not; local jurisdiction requirements and a variety of other variables all affect the price. But every system is custom designed to [...]
In Colorado we are very lucky as we live in a state where the government has been proactive in stimulating the use of renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic systems. The State energy credit for solar installations exempts the 2.9% States based sales tax, and the 1.2% RTD sales tax from all the equipment purchased [...]
How long will it take to payback/break even on my solar system? The quintessential question of how long will it take to break even on the investment in a PV solar system varies, but it is typically in the range of 8-11 years for residential and 4-7 years for commercial. Some of the variable factors [...]
