Using Solar Power At Home

If you are thinking of going solar in your home here are some advantages and disadvantages in doing this that may help you to make up your mind.

Advantages of a Solar Powered Home:

• A solar powered home offers free energy for as long as your solar panels last.
• Free energy from a solar powered home means no more electric bills, which means more savings for you.
• A solar powered home is environmentally helpful. It is green living at its best in terms of energy.
• A solar powered home is a quiet home.
• A solar powered home requires no maintenance, as does a home run on electricity.
• Solar panels last efficiently for approximately 30 years.
• The overabundance of electricity that you store in your solar energy system can be kept in batteries. This energy can be used if and when you need it on an overcast day for instance. There are also power companies out there who will welcome your excess electricity and even pay you for it.
• Some states will give you a tax credit when you operate your home on solar energy.

Disadvantages of a Solar Powered Home:

• To convert your home to solar power can be costly, time consuming, and a hindrance if you are not particularly handy at this type of thing.
• You need a lot of space to be efficient in running a home on solar power. The equipment to run your solar powered home takes up a great deal of room.
• There may be some difficulty in running your solar powered home efficiently due to lack of sunlight, water in the atmosphere, and/or air pollution.
• There is no electricity generated during the dark hours of night or cloudy periods of weather.
• Once you convert your home into a solar powered home the option of ever moving from where you are to another home is limited. You would have to set the solar powered system up all over again at your new residence, which most people would not consider doing.

As you can see there are more advantages then disadvantages in using solar power at home, however, I would still take it into careful consideration when coming to terms regarding a decision in this.

It is a major undertaking to convert your home to a solar powered home and much is dependent in terms of its efficiency in the weather elements. It certainly is a plus in terms of environmentally green issues, but a lot remains to be seen in terms of its practicality. The choice, ultimately, is a very personal one. Would you turn your home into a solar powered home if you could?