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How do we use a Do It Yourself (DIY) home solar energy system to reduce our electricity bill? One of the major expenses of our homes is the electricity bill. We use electricity to power all our household appliances. Most electric power plants use either oil or coal to generate power. We know the supply of this material is limited therefore as housing development grows, the cost of electric power will increase as well. How do we shield ourselves from future rising cost of electricity? One option is to use a renewable energy source such as solar power.
You can substantially reduce your home energy costs and even put some money back into your pocket by supplementing your existing power sources with a home solar panel.
The current challenge of using solar energy to power our homes is the high cost. If you were to engage a contractor to do the retrofitting, be prepared to invest a few thousand dollars. Many people would not be able to afford that. As an alternative, we can build our own homemade solar energy system via a DIY approach.
To figure out the cost of solar panel systems to provide supplemental power to your home, it helps to perform an energy audit of your home, or – put plainly – an assessment of how much power you’d like your solar panel system to generate for you each day. To do this, take a look at the wattage of each of the electrical items that you might run in your home on any given day – microwave, TV, light bulbs, vacuum, refrigerator, fans, A/C, computer, etc., and add it all together.
To reduce our household electricity bill is a matter of connecting our home appliances into the solar power system. The amount of power we can use from the system will depend on the size of the solar panels and also the number of batteries. If we were to aim for 10 percent energy cost reduction, the amount of money saved will be quite substantial after a few years.
In addition to the cost benefits of solar usage, you also benefit from a cleaner environment (not to mention a cleaner conscience). In fact, the cost of not using solar power – increased pollution and depletion of natural resources – is far greater than any up front cost of solar panel systems.