By Christina McDonald-Legg

Producing solar power at home can cut your electricity bills by up to 90 percent and has a lot of advantages. If you learn how to produce solar power at home, you can bring considerable changes to your life. Here is some information that you might need in order to better acquaint yourself with this unconventional form of energy if you are planning to opt for it.

Learn How To Produce Solar Power At Home

Solar energy does not cause pollution. It is safe, and much cheaper than other forms of conventional energy sources. It is an unlimited source of energy and does not cause any environmental damage, like affecting the ozone layer. This fuel is not a non-renewable source of the earth’s energy resources (like coal, petroleum, diesel, crude oil, kerosene, etc). For all these reasons it is termed as a green fuel. By going green, you can save our planet from more environmental stress.

If you consider the varieties of uses for solar energy, you will be amazed. Apart from being used for electricity, it can be used to heat water, cook food with solar cookers, centralized air conditioning, solar cars, solar buses, solar trams, and many more. You can even use it in solar powered calculators, attic fans and even to heat up swimming pools. Solar power can be stored in batteries and used later on when it is required. There are many other appliances that have been specifically designed to run on solar power. This makes solar power very versatile as a source of energy.

If you look at the track record of solar power, it has become very popular in a considerably small amount of time. The main reason for this is the high price of solar electricity, which is still increasing each day. Electricity is measured in kilowatts: one kilowatt is equivalent to 1,000 watts. To light up a lamp with a 100-watt rating through 10 hours, you would be using one kilowatt-hour, or 1KWH.

Use Solar Energy to Power My House

A solar power unit for your home will ideally contain a charger controller, a battery, an inverter, solar panels, support and wiring structure. It takes about three days to install a one-kilowatt solar power unit in your home, and it will cost you approximately $10,000 to set up and use solar energy to power your house. The best place to get the accurate cost of setting up your home solar power unit is the retail store where you purchased the unit.

A careful consideration of the space that would be needed to set up 10 to 12 solar panels should be made. There must be enough space on your terrace to fit this setup. Consider a minimum of 100 square feet of free area.

Depending on whether it is cloudy or sunny, you can generate up to 750 kilowatt-hours to 1,600 kilowatt-hours per annum. The system should ideally be a one- kilowatt unit for such a set up. You must consider all this information before you plan to opt for home solar power.

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Daily Press – Newport News,VA,USA
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New Law Offers Solar Savings
KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG – Honolulu,HI,USA
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Power Plays
Wall Street Journal – USA
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WWSB – Sarasota,FL,USA
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XL Telecom focuses on export market of solar panels
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Government to lift all corners of the country out of the dark
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
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Vibrating raindrops may power our homes
ABC Science Online – Australia
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Moser Baer to invest $1.5 bn in solar power
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Sunny Propositions
Northender (subscription) – Oyster Bay,NY,USA
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Solar Power, Inc. to Present at the ROTH Capital Partners 20th …
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
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Siberia: Solar Power’s Next Heartland?
Wall Street Journal – USA
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BBC News – UK
By Maggie Ayre Even in grey, overcast Britain, some householders are managing to use solar power to meet their energy needs. …
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PR Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USA
7 /PRNewswire/ — Long Beach homeowners are so hungry for solar power that they successfully lobbied leading installer SolarCity to extend its Community …
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Saratoga Country Club to Deploy 166kW Solar Power System,
RenewableEnergyAccess.com – Peterborough,NH,USA
“We selected REgrid Power to design and deploy our solar power system because of their expertise, quality and reliability,” added Burton. …
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Masdar tests solar power
ArabianBusiness.com – Dubai,Umm al Qaiwain,United Arab Emirates
PV is a solar power technology that uses solar cells, either made from silicon or thin film, to convert sunlight directly into electricity. …
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Alaska ‘energy guy’ says solar power is worthwhile
Kodiak Daily Mirror – Kodiak,AK,USA
By MISTY MAYNARD A four-hour course on integrating solar energy into Alaska homes proved to be a popular event, Tuesday night. The room at Kodiak College …
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Xantrex inverters used at utility-scale Alamosa solar installation
RenewableEnergyAccess.com – Peterborough,NH,USA
SunEdison financed, built and maintains the Alamosa solar plant under a Solar Power Services Agreement (SPSA) with Xcel Energy. Under the SPSA, utility Xcel …
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Bulk purchase of solar panels makes green energy more viable
insideTORONTO.com – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
BY CYNTHIA REASON It’s been nearly a year and a half since the Downtown West Solar Energy Project (DWSEP) first embarked on its mission to provide a sunny …
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Solar Decathletes Prep For 2009 Contest
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Students will spend the next two years designing and building 800-square-foot homes that are powered entirely by solar energy. Homes must be net-zero-energy …
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Energy Conversion Devices Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
CNNMoney.com – USA
Enfinity will use the UNI-SOLAR products for rooftop installations in Europe. — An agreement with SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy service …
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PM calls for review of energy pricing policies
Deccan Herald – Bangalore,India
… RK Pachauri said the government could consider shifting the subsidies on kerosene to solar lighting in order to promote solar energy in the country. …
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Township warms to using solar energy
The Express Times – Easton,PA,USA
… costs but is earning money through energy credits. The large highway, road and bridge construction company facility has more than just a solar system. …
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City makes strides on solar energy plan
Ypsilanti Courier – Ypsilanti,MI,USA
“Solar panel power generation is a good idea for everyone involved,” he stated. “To visibly embrace renewable energy, to be the first city hall in Michigan …
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Helping the World’s Oceans Begins at Home With Solar Energy
FOXBusiness – USA
BOULDER, Colo., Feb 05, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Bella Energy, a Boulder based solar energy company that installs and maintains solar energy systems …
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Alternative energy
GulfNews – Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Among his top holdings in solar energy are Suntech and Q-Cells, while Vestas and Gamesa are favourites in wind turbines. Among alternative energy resources, …
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