If you live in an area that experiences long, harsh winters you may wonder if solar panels are a good choice for your home. After all, this is a technology that relies on sunlight in order to deliver power.
But the last 10 years have brought much innovation and progress to solar panel technology. Now solar technology has progressed to the point that solar panels can easily create electricity even without direct sunlight.
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Off grid systems should include a set of back-up batteries (similar to a car battery) that are designed to store extra electricity that your solar panels generate during daylight hours. If your battery storage system is correctly designed for your region, it will have enough of these batteries to store electricity for the number of overcast days that are normal for where you live.
If you have a system that is connected to the grid of your local electric utility company, then you won’t require storage batteries. When the sun goes down at night, or during a spell of inclement weather where you don’t see the sun for days, your power system will automatically use electricity from your local energy company. Of course, on sunny days, your solar panels will be generating your electricity, so you will still be benefitting from lower power bills.
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In some places, you may even be able to sell electricity back to your local power company. This arrangement makes solar energy even more cost effective. How this operates is that any excess electricity that your solar panels produce flows back into the energy company and you receive a credit for it on your energy bill. That way, even if you have to use power from the grid during the night or during cloudy days, any excess power that your solar panels were able to produce will still be lowering your overall energy bills.
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