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How effective are solar panels?
It all depends on the amount of solar panels you have and their photovoltaic conversion rate. Many people live straight off there solar panels and there's many others who produce more electricity then they use in a month and get paid for it from the electric company.
How is solar power used?
You can use solar and wind power to dry your clothes. Save energy by not using a dryer. You can put solar panels on your roof, attached to an inverter, and gather electricity and perhaps sell it back to the main grid. You can certainly use it to lower your energy use, and have cheaper power bills (after you have paid for the initial installation).
How do solar panels and solar cells reduce your use of energy?
They don't reduce your usage, it is just another source of energy. It can reduce your energy bills paid to the utility companies.
Do solar panels have ongoing costs?
Nope - they don't need regular servicing or cleaning. Once they're paid for, they are cost free.
What are the disadvatages of solar power?
Current solar panels aren't all that efficient (the highest has been about 33% efficiency, but most production panels are lower than this), and also they require a fairly large upfront cost to install. However, the installation cost is paid off during the life of the panels. The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages of solar, and there are way more disadvantages to fossil fuels than there are to renewable forms of energy like solar.
How much money do solar panels save yearly?
a lot For most people the payback period on solar panels is in terms of decades or never, but that all depends upon the rate of increase of electric power prices. The price per watt of installed solar panels is slowly coming down. I think that current prices are in the neighborhood of $6-10 per watt. To be truly competitive at today's electricity prices it still has a ways to go before it can directly compete in today's market. However...... There are several factors. Note that once you buy the solar panels, your costs are basically fixed. That means that the cost of the energy you are receiving from those panels is frozen because you have already paid for the energy by purchasing the solar panels. For everyone else that is still buying from the electric company, their prices will continue to rise. At some point you will end up paying less than they for the same amount of energy. How long it takes before you are paying less depends on how much your panels cost and how much you would have been paying if you continued to purchase energy from the electric company. There are promising technologies that may provide lower cost solar cells. These may push the price per watt in a direction to make solar cells more competitive at today's electric prices. That hasn't happened yet. There is also some companies that are making plans to rent solar panels to home owners and the price you pay as rent is to simply pay for the electricity provided by the solar panel at the price your electric company would charge - and the price is then frozen at that price for the length of the lease. The freeze of the price under those conditions is the real benefit for solar panel rental. However, to my knowledge none of these companies are actually delivering to the mass market as yet. BALL SH*T!
What is the difference between gross tariff and net tariff as regards solar panels?
This is where the electricity company buys the electricity you generate from your solar panels.Gross tariff means they buy everything you generate. This often means that they will buy your electricity during the day at a higher price than you have to pay them for your evening use.Net tariff means they buy only the surplus energy you produce. Your own electricity is used first on whatever is running in your house. If there is any left, then the company will buy it.Net tariff is also called export metering.
How much would you save a month if you switched from electric to solar energy?
If you changed completely then whatever amount your electricity bill came to. Some installations allow you to feed back to the grid and you get paid for the electricity you supply.There is of course the installation cost so that would have to be taken into account.
What is the problem with solar energy?
Solar energy, while being quite useful, can also have it's own problems. For example, how does solar energy work if you occupy a place that rains most of the time? The sun is never out so, no solar-power. Furthermore, the rate of efficiency with solar panels is only 40%, is it worth all the money that is paid for them?
Can you chose where your solar power will go?
If you have solar panels on your roof, the power they produce will usually go to one of two places:Into your house to power your lights and appliances (this is net metering)Back to the grid and you'll get paid for every kilowatt hour you produce (this is a feed-in-tariff)
How are solar panels good for the environment?
If you've happened upon this article because you are looking for information on how solar panels help the environment, get set to find yourself amazed. You are going to discover the easiest way how to equip your house with a limitless source of free energy, and get paid for your efforts! Sounds unrealistic? Indulge me a little bit - continue on with this brief article.What's the point of spending your hard-earned money on electricity when you can have your own solar-based power source system, equipment that you can create and install yourself - now that's easy! And fortunately, this system doesn't cost much; solar was most common on luxury homes up until recently, but now it's become the economical way to go.How did i learn all this? I had heard about some of the benefits of solar energy, and was doing some research on how solar panels help the environment and i learned that while it was fairly new to me, there were many who had already "seen the light" and have been enjoying the rewards of a system which turns ordinary sunlight into an abundant supply of electricity in no time. A quick research on that reveals another amazing fact - all this is obtainable with the purchase of a few everyday materials, at a cost that anyone and I'll say it again: anyone can afford. Former restrictions like accessibility and cost have been removed and we can benefit from technology which gives us the ability to benefit from a free source of electricity for as long as we live.
How much do solar engineers get paid?
It would depend on luck, skill, and experience. On average perhaps $70k a year.
