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If you have purchased an electric vehicle (EV), the most amazing type of automobile on the market today, you will be able to drive it for free powered by the sun! You can charge it from your solar photovoltaic system and never have to buy energy to drive. I have been an EV and PV [...]
The simple answer is not really. All a solar photovoltaic customer really should care about is can enough solar panels be installed in the area available to fully power the home or business completely for the entire year. Less efficient panels cost less and only disadvantage is it will require more panels to produce the [...]
Yes, and since your home’s air-conditioner will consume a large amount of electricity for every hour the compressor runs, a solar photovoltaic system can make that required electricity all day while the sun is shining. And one of the great side benefits of a solar system is your air-conditioner will likely not run as often [...]
90% of the time ownership of a solar PV system is the best approach. By owning your own system you have the ability to get free electricity for decades after the pay-off period end, typically for residential about 8-11 years. Since the system should last 35-40 years, that is a long period of time you [...]
Solar photovoltaic panels come in three basic dimension dictated by the number of cells in the architecture of the panel design; 60 cell, 66 cell, and 72 cell panels. The standard residential 60 cell panel is approximately 38” x 68” dimensionally, which equates to a surface area of 18 sq./ft., with a panel rating of [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
