Your electricity bill, "Sky High"? With summer approaching, we are afraid of the price it will cost you your house cool in summer?

Would it surprise you to know that many homeowners are the sun's energy in an effort to reduce energy costs? What was a futuristic dream is now a present reality.

Solar systems are now accessible to the general public. Depending on your budget, there are many systems to choose from. You can starta small system with one or two of your equipment, or you can go all the power, and a large system that needs all the energy in your home turn.

Solar energy measured in kilowatt hours or kWh. In some measure, a 1000 watt, kilowatt equivalent, so 1 kWh equals 1,000 watts of electricity per hour. Use this formula to the form of energy required (the element amperes) times the voltage (110V or 220V) to use the kWh per month. Thus, an element at 2.2 amps ata 110 volt system will need 220 watts to run or.22kWh.

Now back to the focus on costs, a small solar system that lets your computer and some small electrical appliances can be used is usually run about $ 700. A larger system, which is a kilowatt (kWh), which can reduce energy bills by up to 50% can produce run $ 10,000.

How solar systems? Solar panels convert sunlight into electricity. Sunlight is our most powerful light is then absorbed by solar energyDishes. Photovoltaic (PV systems also) related to solar energy systems.

We see things every day that use solar power. Calculators and watches are now powered by photovoltaic systems. The more sophisticated systems can not only produce electricity at home, but can produce enough energy, they also used to provide power for cellular towers.

The solar cells are integrated in the production of solar modules. You may have seen on the roofs of buildings and homes. SeedsScale form silicon photovoltaic cells. When the sun produces solar energy absorbed by the semiconductor and then converted into electricity. panels to increase energy efficiency called "thin film" is

The length of the house and the average amount of electricity consumed, which determines the size of the energy system you need. Make sure you get accurate measurements of the surface area of the house, and several months of electricity bill for the figureaverage energy required.

According to the Department of Energy, the average home uses 920 kWh per month in 2008. The United States has used a whole 4,000 billion kWh per year! That's a lot of energy! Did you know that the sun consumes more energy in one hour around the world in a year?

Although it has become more affordable solar home systems, are still quite an investment. If you can run a house of a medium-sized solar power system as high as $ 40,000. Do not bethese numbers scare you. In the calculation of costs and benefits, a period of time, looking ten to twenty years.

Around the camp, many government with tax incentives and other discounts as an incentive. Make it look like you could, for all programs solar systems have been at home. Some governments are even field by providing funding for solar installations.

In the long run, how people think that electricity bills a thing of the past. In fact, manyThe owners of solar systems in their systems to maximize solar energy, rather than resale.

net metering provides the owner of a solar energy storage system, the ability to sell their excess, unused energy back to their suppliers. You can make your solar system you make money.

Solar energy can be directed to the need of a home on the grid. The cost to run the cables from the electrical network is astronomical.

This makes a solar systeman incredible savings. Remotes are the Third World countries now have a choice to walk instead of a solar-powered electrical lines go.

If most of a solar home system, start first by cutting the amount of energy used at home to get. Make sure that the overall picture, if it is based on the price of investment.

As more people choose to go with solar energy as the main source of energy, we'll see fewer and fewer greenhouse gas emissions globallyHeating, which benefits all.