Solar Power at Home,
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Welcome to Solar Power at Home.

Here you'll find information on solar energy in the home, cabin or even your boat.

Check out all our pages on solar's history, cost, advantages, disadvantages, how it works, etc......

Thinking about a solar electricity system to provide some or all of your home power? Here are some step by step strategies to get you started on your own solar power home. Read on for more information on solar as an alternative clean energy source in your home. Advantages and disadvantages, how it works, getting set up and links to some really cool sun run products, it's all here!

Click on the headings below for more info on each subject.

Solar News

Come to this page for the scoop on what's happening with Solar Power at Home, whether it's new discoveries, subsidies or innovative uses. We'll keep you posted.

Solar Investments

Visit this page if you're thinking of investing in solar stocks or mutual funds.

Solar Energy History

The continuing story of Solar Energy's slow and steady rise.

How Does Solar Energy Work?

Simple explanations, links to some animations and descriptions.

Advantages of Solar Energy

Check out the many advantages of using solar energy.

Disadvantages of Solar Power

There are some disadvantages although they minimize every year.

Energy Conservation Tips

(or how to save money) Some pain free suggestions for reducing your energy costs.

Lighting the Outdoors with Solar

Beautify your outdoor living spaces and landscape with solar lights.

Solar Energy Prices

Here's the skinny on the cost of bringing solar energy to your home.

Residential Solar Power Systems

What's a grid tied system? What do I require for an Independent system? It's all here. Solar power for home use.

Portable Solar Power Systems

Take it anywhere! There are even roll up units that tenters and backpackers can use.

Solar Boats , RV's, Cottages.

The further you go into the boonies the more sense solar power makes. During winter months we live on a sailboat and use solar power extensively. While sipping a cold cocktail and listening to our favourite tunes we toast the silent solar panels that make these things possible in some of the most remote places on the planet.

Cool "Sun Run" Products

Solar powered calculators and garden lighting have led the way to an amazing array of products that are run by sun power, well made and are reasonably priced.

Solar panels

All about solar panels

Cooking With Solar

Solar ovens can be used in your back yard or at your wilderness getaway.

Solar Powered Cars

They're coming.....

Deep Cycle Batteries

If you're considering an independent system or blackout protection you'll need deep cycle batteries to store the energy.

Inverters

To use Solar Power at Home the energy collected needs to be converted to the kind of energy that a household normally uses (AC). An inverter changes the energy from DC to AC (or 12V to 110)

Guest cottages

There are fewer power needs in most guest houses. Fewer rooms to heat/cool and light and fewer appliances. Most times your guests come to see you and will actually spend most of their time with you.

Swimming pools

An excellent way to reduce your power bill and grid demands is to heat and filter your swimming pool using solar power.

Perhaps Solar Power at Home is the answer to the age old question, "What can I do about the environment"?

What about those cloudy days?

Although sun panels collect an optimum amount of power when the sun shines brightly they still work on cloudy days at a reduced level.


Will they collect moonshine - er - rather, moonlight?

Sometimes, during the full phase of the moon, we've noticed a blip on our monitor but nothing measurable.

These words were uttered by Theodore Roosevelt more than 100 years ago: "We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources and we have just reason to be proud of our growth. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils shall have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields, and obstructing navigation. The natural resources I have enumerated can be divided into two sharply distinguished classes accordingly as they are or are not capable of renewal. The minerals do not renew themselves. Therefore in dealing with the coal, the oil, the iron, metals generally, all that we can do is try to see that they are wisely used. The exhaustion is certain to come in time." Theodore Roosevelt

Solar Power at Home is the wise choice for the future
It gives us more power over our lives at the same time as it powers our homes.
Independence from unstable fuel prices, security in blackouts and environmental sustainability are no small potatoes for utilizing a resource that is available for the collecting.
And that's only the beginning....

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