NEW! SOLAR POWER CALCULATORHow much do solar panels cost? How many would I need to power a 2000 sq/ft house?
January 9th, 2010
Where can I buy solar panels? Are you able to install them in town or do you need a special permit to put them on your roof? With energy prices going back up, I've got to do something now. I'm sick of the power company taking an ever increasing chunk of my income.
There's two main approaches, do it yourself solar panels and professional installation of solar panels.
To go 100% solar in a 2000 sq/ft house with a professional install will cost about $50,000. If you have the money, go for it. But most people don't. I'm talking 99% of the people out there. So here's a cheaper option: do it yourself solar panels.
The do it yourself approach is a piece-meal approach. You build one solar panel, then take something in your home off the power grid and put it on this solar panel and battery bank. Over time you build more and more solar panels, a larger battery bank, and you take more and more appliances in your home off the power grid.
For example, you could build 1 solar panel system for about $300 that will take your computer, monitor, tower, modem, and speakers off the power grid.
A couple months later or when you have the money, you take something else off the power grid.
Use this solar power calculator to calculate the number of solar panels you will need to build:
http://www.mysolarsecret.com/solar-power-calculator.html
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