Use Of Solar Power At Home

There are five main renewable and green energy sources and solar power is one of them. It is probably the most used green energy source today and to describe it in simple words, the technology gives us the opportunity to convert sun rays into electricity. There are other ways to take the sun power to convert it to heat for example and you can read more about this in our water heater page.

The use of solar power in our day to day life is growing every day but over the past few years, mainly due to the energy crisis, the rising cost of energy as well as our will to reduce the carbon footprint, the use of solar power becomes more and more ordinary in everyone’s life with the most simple and regular things.

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The great thing about using solar power that it is for free and it is totally clean. Producing solar power doesn’t cost anything and all that is required is a solar panel and a small converting system that integrates to our home grid. You can build such a system today in less than $200 and enjoy significant reduction in your electricity bill on top of applying electricity saving tips.

It is also clean energy since the conversion process of sun’s rays to energy, doesn’t pollute the environment. It doesn’t create any by products out of the conversion process unlike other energy creation methods like fossil fuel, gas or coal burning and others.

In remote locations where it is costly to bring power lines it is the ultimate solution since everything can be installed on the spot and no need to connect to some local utility company.

There are many common use of solar power for home such as lighting, heating or cooling, water heating, providing electricity to home appliances and much more (read our home energy consumption page) and all that is required is a home solar power system that is very easy and cheap to build. Even the maintenance is simple and cheap so with a fraction of the price of a yearly electricity bills anyone with sufficient amount of sun, can enjoy free and clean energy source.

Many might think that putting such a system requires a lot of space for the solar panels. With the huge technology progress over the last years, this is not an issue anymore. The efficiency of small scale solar panels increased significantly over the last few years and now all you need is a sun facing roof and you can install 2-3 small scale solar panels that will create sufficient electricity for your home needs.

The nicest thing however is that the government participates in your costs. Many federal and state governments provide many ways to encourage you to build your home in a green way as possible. This is being done by tax credits or exemptions, local or governmental subsidies, reduced rate mortgages and many other methods.
It is also well known today that any home that is built with a solar power system increase its value in the market by 10-15% over similar one without solar power system

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