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Thin film solar power is an alternate technology for turning the sun’s photons into electricity as apposed to the original method using silicon crystal based solar cells. The thin film panels offer some advantages over silicon cells but at this stage of their development they are not as efficient nor less expensive per watt so [...]

To decode which of the hundreds of solar panel manufactures is the best, requires first for one to answered what one is trying to achieve? The simple answer is that the best warranty, the highest efficiency, and best performing solar PV panel from a known manufacture is unquestionably the best. But not everyone may need [...]

Any garage roof that is part of the same property can have the solar panels mounted their instead of the home or in addition to the home. If it is an attached garage then most definitely and very easily. If it is a detached garage the answer is still yes, the only question is how [...]

The best way for any professional solar PV designer to custom design the right system for a customer is for the customer to provide the historic electric consumption for the structure they wish to add solar to. In this way a system can be sized appropriately to meet the assumed future demand based on historical [...]

In the last decade the proliferation of solar photovoltaic has cause the price of the panels and the equipment in the system to be cut to a fourth of what they were in 2010. So the panels themselves are now a commodity, rather than the big cost driver as they were in the past. A [...]

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 [...]