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Solar
Electricity - Our Solar Electric Home
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 Solar living and using solar electric panels to provide
solar electricity for our home was an easy transition from receiving power from
the power companies. The nearest utility poles are about a half mile from
our home. We bought our property knowing that power was not close and
would be expensive to run to our property. Because of this we paid a
lot less for the land. The cost difference paid for our initial system. We
estimate that our solar power system pays for itself again every 7 to 8 years.
Unless you saw the solar collectors on the
outside, you would never know we were a solar electric home on
the inside. Our home functions just the same way any other home
that receives grid power would. There are some limitations on what we can
do with our solar electric system. We can not run two major appliances like a
microwave and blow dryer at the same time. Our inverter provides 2800
watts of power and two items like those would come close to using more
power than is available at one time. We also use a propane refrigerator
which eliminates the need for a large solar electric system. Other than that, we use our power like we always
have only using solar energy instead.
Please visit the Living
On Solar Blog to talk about or ask questions about solar electricity.
The video runs for 3 minutes and 46 seconds
and shows what the components of a solar electricity system are from the solar
panels to the charge controller and inverter. It then shows how we took
those components and used them for our solar electric system.
We hope that you enjoy the video. Please watch our other solar videos
elsewhere on this site.
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to play the solar electricity video
March 15, 2010
Here is a new section that we thought you
might like. We will keep it updated.
Solar Electricity News
- Considering
renewables? Our guide to green, clean energy in the home
- As contrary to popular belief solar photovoltaic (PV) cells
don't need direct sunlight to work, so you can still generate some electricity
on a cloudy day. ...
- A
New Incentive for Solar in California: Tradable
Renewable-Energy Credits
- California homeowners and small-business owners who install solar-electric
systems may soon start to receive an additional reward that could be
worth ...
- Sungevity
sells 'Sunshine Online'
- And San Francisco-based SunRun offers "power purchase
agreements," where consumers pay SunRun a fixed rate for solar
electricity that is usually much less ...
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