Build Your Own Solar Panel & Slash Your Electric Bill

Educators say that the true value of education is not its impact of the present but on the future. Learning how to build and install alternate energy devices, such as solar panels, is the proof of that pudding. Imagine the money that you could save, not only now but forever into your future, on your monthly electric bill by installing a solar power system. Imagine how much more you could save if you knew how to build your own solar panels.

The concept of home generated solar energy is simple. The homeowner or a contractor installs a system of solar panels, wiring, batteries, converters, and controls at your home in an area of your property that experiences the maximum of sunlight possible. Once the system is installed and operating, the electricity generated is practically free. Such a system can save the average homeowner from 50 to 70 percent on his family's monthly electric bill. The only cost of such as system, minor maintenance excepted, is for installation and setup.

Regardless of the cost of installation, it will eventually be paid over time by the savings realized on the monthly electric bill. How long that will take depends upon how much the homeowner spent for that initial installation and setup. If the homeowner had a manufactured system professionally installed, he might have paid over $2000 for a basic system. If he had learned how to build your own solar panels, and installed them himself, the total cost may have been around $200. Obviously the homeowner that builds and installs his own solar panels will amortize the initial cost in one tenth the time of the professionally installed system.

Homeowners that cannot afford a professionally installed system, but also do not wish to build a system from scratch, can buy solar energy kits. These kits have all of the components that are needed to build your own solar panel system, including the most important components; the solar panels themselves. Although using a kit is far less costly than a professional installation, the kits will still cost more than if you built the solar panels as well.

If you have the time, a few common household power and hand tools, and a modicum of handyman skills, you can save even more of the initial costs by committing to build your own solar panel system. Components are readily available from local hardware stores or from the Internet.

Regardless of which way you go, once installed you will begin saving money each month on your electric bill while generating, clean and green electrical power for your home.