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How would you like to reduce the fossil fuels you depend on and save money at the same time?

Solar technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years. It’s viable to now supplement or replace your household power with residential solar energy. By building your own solar panels you will be able to save on utility bills. Should you generate more energy than you use, you could store it in batteries for future use or sell it back to the power grid for a small profit.

The commercial price of residential solar systems is approximately twenty thousand dollars. At this price it may be years or decades before you recoup the cost of the investment in energy bill savings. Home solar panels can be built for less than $300, an order of magnitude cheaper and the lower outlay also means that you will recoup the cost of your investment sooner, and it will become profitable more quickly.

To decide if your home is suitable for a residential solar power system, you need to consider if your home gets enough sun and if there is sufficient space around your house with nothing that could potentially block the sun, like trees or tall buildings. A large roof helps, and large wall sidings will also help with mounting the solar panels. You could also put them in an open space like your garden or back yard.

Building a few home solar panels will enable you to save up to 80% of your electricity bill. Replacing your home energy needs will take a good number of solar panels and will also perhaps need to be supplemented by wind turbines to deal with times when the sun isn’t shining. Setting up a residential solar power system may also qualify you for green tax credits, and other incentives and could also raise the value of your home. There really is no better time to set up a system of your own.

The right information is key to building and installing your own residential solar power system. A search on the internet will bring up a lot of information, but there are not very many manuals with the right information on this undertaking. A good guide will be written by someone who has created their own system, and the instructions will be concise and easy to understand. The shopping list of components should also be easily available from local hardware stores.

A guide with instructional videos will accelerate the process tremendously, so if the package comes with videos that cover the entire process you’ll be in a much better position to be successful. When purchasing a blueprint, ensure that you understand each step and how all the components fit together. Although it is a learning curve, the theory and practise of assembling a home made solar panel is not rocket science. A good guide will have information that is pitched at the right level for you to understand, and should not be unnecessarily complex. A complex system takes more time to build, install and maintain, and you’ll want to spend more time enjoying your renewable energy, not maintaining its system.

One of the must abundant and pollution free sources of energy today is the sun. So long as our star is shining, we can harness its power for our energy needs, and with all the incentives available today there is no better time to build your own residential solar energy system.

Mark Tan is an expert in home renewable energy systems. He believes we can reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and be kinder to the earth.

To find out how you can install your own home solar panels, please visit http://www.homemadepowersolutions.com

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