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Taking A Look At The Expenses In Relation To Using Solar Energy For Your Home

Monday, December 10, 2012 16:41
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Making the switch to solar energy is a thing that every person should do, but one thing that holds many folks back would be the fact that they believe it is a thing that is too expensive to get started with. You’re going to see that there are many different kinds of costs involved when you choose to switch over to solar energy, but you should also understand that these costs can be reduced every once in awhile. On this page we are going to be looking at a number of the different costs involved to switching to solar and also how you are able to save money while doing this.

If you’ve looked on Amazon or various other web sites that sells solar power panel systems, you are going to find complete systems are available to be invested in, according to your power needs. You are still going to need to purchase batteries separately, since this is how you’ll store the energy, so even if they say they are a complete solar panel kit you should keep this in mind. If you wind up building a large solar panel system you will need considerably more batteries than if you decided to just build a smaller solar panel system. For those of you wondering how much these batteries cost, you need to comprehend that you can purchase them at just about any kind of auto parts store for about $100.

If you decide to purchase the complete system, you’re going to see that it is going to set you back anywhere between $500 and $20,000 with regards to the size of the system you purchase. For about $300 you will have the ability to pick up a single solar panel that will provide you with 100 W of electricity, and just how many you need depends on how large of a system you are building. A solar panel system of 3 or 4 panels may have the ability of decreasing your electric bill substantially, and could have the ability to power a little home or mobile home for individuals who conserve their electricity. For individuals who use a lot of electricity or have a lot of folks living in your house, you’ll see that a solar panel system of 10 or even 20 solar panels will be needed.

Once you have your solar energy panels and batteries you will need a few other a items to make your system complete and that is going to be a power inverter and also a charge controller. It’s impossible to come up with an actual cost for the power inverter simply because there’s a lot of different sizes and the larger the inverter you need the more cash you will need to pay for it.

When all is said and done it’s going to cost you anywhere between $1000 and $1500 in order to set up a solar panel system which will contain three or four panels, the batteries and other incidentals. You should also bear in mind that it might be very expensive if this is something which you need to have someone else install for you, and this may be an added expense on top of your initial investment.

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