What Are The Problems With Solar Power

If you are planning to buy a photovoltaic solar power system, you are supposed to start with increasing energy efficiency of your home or office. Achieving energy efficiency means reducing electrical consumption and your monthly electricity bills respectively. Why is energy efficiency so important? Simply because saving energy is less expensive than producing energy. By … Read more

Why You Should Be Careful With Free Solar Sizing Software

Why you should be careful with free solar sizing software or tools? Free software for solar power system sizing could be easily found on the Internet, on sites of most solar vendors. It appears attractive since everybody would be excited to get a solar system evaluated for free. At least this is what those free … Read more

Where Are Solar Panels Used?

Solar panels are used in solar electric systems to generate electricity from sunlight. Different types of  solar panels have different performance due to different conversion efficiency of their solar cells. There are two main types of solar electric (photovoltaic) systems – connected to the grid (‘grid-tied’) and disconnected from the grid (‘off-grid’). Grid-tied systems allow … Read more