Residential Solar Power Systems
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Residential solar power systems may be the perfect alternative energy solution for most homes.
They quietly convert simple sunlight into useful electricity that you can use to power your home.
If you size the system correctly you can eliminate your entire monthly electricity bill.
In some places you can even collect a check for any excess electricity you generate.
These systems work silently and create no harmful byproducts that can hurt the planet.
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If they are installed properly, they can continue to generate this free power for your home for decades.
One of the improvements to these systems that really benefit a homeowner is their flexibility.
Older systems were very limited in the way they could be configured. In most cases you had to buy a system that contained all the same brand of equipment.
This raised the price of an average system and didn’t allow the homeowner to mix and match components. The reasons for this was that there wasn’t any real standard between systems and because of this it was hard to be sure that certain products would work together.
Over the years certain standards were established on the size of components like solar panels and the voltages they generated as well. This allowed these residential solar power systems to be built from a wider range of product types and also made them more affordable.
These standards also enabled specialty companies to help make the installation of these residential solar power systems easier by building standard components for the mounting and connection of the equipment.
Older systems were mostly custom built onsite and required a lot of specialty wiring and mounting gear. This made the installation of these systems more complex and expensive.
These newer residential solar power systems use standard mounting assemblies and wiring connectors, which makes installation easier. Most of these new systems use a specialized mounting rail kit to secure the solar panels to the home’s roof. You simply slide the new solar panels onto the rails and lock them down. The connection between the solar panels and the home is accomplished by snapping a cable into the connectors on the side of the panels.
The flexibility in these new residential solar power systems also made expansion of the systems easier.
Because these newer systems were designed to be more modular they could grow over time. A homeowner could start with a very basic system that was wired into their home.
This smaller system would provide a portion of the power they used and would allow them to lower their electricity bills slightly each month. Over time they could simply add more solar panels to their system and immediately increase the amount of power they were generating and eliminate even more of the power they bought that month from their local utility.
Eventually they could expand their system to the point where it provided all the power their home required and they wouldn’t have an electricity bill at all. By expanding slowly like this over time, they eliminated the large initial investment that prevented many homeowners from ever being able to afford one of these residential solar power systems. If this trend continues as some have predicted it will, the components you’ll need to expand you system will be simple enough for every homeowner to install and could be bought off the shelf at your local hardware store.
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