Surviving The Winter Season With Solar Power
If you reside in a region that has long, harsh winters you may wonder if your house is a good candidate for solar panels. After all, days or weeks of overcast skies, snow flurries or monsoon rains hardly seem compatible with a technology that relies on sunlight to run it.
However, the last 10 years have brought much innovation and progress to solar panel technology. Now, even when it’s snowy, cloudy or rainy, solar panels can easily make electricity.
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Off grid systems should include a set of storage batteries (similar to a car battery) that are made to store extra energy that your solar panels produce during the daytime. If your battery storage system is correctly designed for your region, it will have enough of these batteries to store electricity for the number of overcast days that are usual for your geographical area.
If your system is tied to the grid (connected to the local electric company) it won’t use storage batteries. When the sun goes down at night, or during a spell of bad weather obscuring the sun for days, your power system will automatically obtain electricity from your local power company. Of course, on sunny days, your solar panels will be providing your electric power, so you will still be benefitting from reduced power bills.
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In some places, you may even be able to sell power back to your local electric company. This is yet another way solar panels can be cost effective. How this works is that any excess power that your solar panels generate goes back into the grid system and you receive a credit for it on your power bill. That way, even if you need to use electricity from the grid during the night or on cloudy days, any unused power that your solar panels were able to produce will still be lowering your overall energy costs.
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