Solar power for homes
Comparison study with other power
sources
Solar energy is the cleaner and greener
renewable source of energy that the nature can provide us with.
The importance of solar power and the fact that it is a non
pollutant has made people consider solar energy as the most
important renewable energy source and hence more and more
people are reaping the benefits of brining in solar energy to
their lives and to their day to day activities.
In fact, solar energy is considered to be more useful than
the other renewable sources of energy like the wind energy. The
federal government and the state governments have also started
promoting of solar energy by giving a lot of incentives to
people who use and wish to use solar powers for their homes and
offices.
"To ease
the financial burden of new solar power systems costs,
the federal government as well as state government now
provides tax rebates and incentives to people ready to go
for solar power."
 The comparison of solar energy is done against
the electricity, generator system and the oil. More people
are interested in knowing the benefits of the solar energy
over electricity in order to fully understand and take a
final decision before installing the solar power systems
in their homes replacing the electricity. The first and
the foremost point to be noted is that the energetic
potential of solar power is great and there are several
priorities of transformation of solar energy to other
kinds of energy and the usage of solar energy.
The first such transformation is to convert the solar energy
into heat energy and using it for heating buildings, heating
water or air conditioning. Here, the plane solar collector is
used to transform solar energy into heat energy, which looks
like a plain metallic box which lets air, water and special
liquids to pass through and is collected in an insulated
vessel. This is the solar water heater and depending on the
solar panels used the size of the collector tank can be varied.
Here, the benefit that the solar energy has over electricity is
that the cost of production of hot water through these solar
heaters is much cheaper than water being produced by electrical
heater or boiler or gas boiler. The solar energy does not
require any fuel and hence will not be polluting the
environment and this explains why more and more people are
installing solar water heaters in their homes these days.
"The solar
collector is used to transform solar energy into heat
which looks like a metallic box, which lets air water and
liquids pass through it and is collected in an insulated
vessel."
 The next important transformation of the solar
energy is into electricity which is the major concern
among many homeowners, who feel that, the rise in their
electricity bills are being sky rocketing year after year.
Here, the process is simple wherein solar panels placed on
the roof tops of the homes collect the sun rays and then
converts this into electric energy which is collected in
the battery attached to the panel through the wires. This
battery will then pass on the collected DC current to the
inverter which converts the DC power into AC power that
will light up the electrical appliances in homes. The
electric energy produced this way can be increased by
increasing the number of solar panels and it also possible
to activate all the electric appliances in a house using
solar energy and its systems. The initial cost of the
solar power systems and its installation is slightly on
the expensive side and this is what is putting people in
double minds whether to go for the solar power systems or
be satisfied with the present electricity that is supplied
by the state governments.
To ease the people over the financial burden of installing new
solar power systems, the federal government as well as the
state government is now providing tax rebates and incentives to
people ready to go for solar power in their homes. The
governments are now well aware of the numerous benefits of the
solar energy that they even are willing to pay to the
homeowners who are ready to supply them with the excess solar
energy that is generated in their homes. With these rebates and
incentives, the government has also advised the mortgagers to
issue loans to people wishing to install the solar power
systems in their homes. So, the cost of installing a solar
power system has now considerably reduced and every homeowner
installing the system can be assured that he will not be
required to anymore pay the huge electricity bills as long as
the sun shines over his home. So, in the long run one can see a
huge savings on the electricity bills.
The transformation of solar energy into electrical energy is
also totally free of air pollution as well as the system will
be silent and hence there will be noise pollution either. The
other methods of production of electrical energy has high
pollution factor like burning up of fuel. The use of solar
power will provide substantial reduction in the consumption of
fossil fuels and gases and hence the environment will be
protected from polluting. But for all this to happen, a sunny
weather is most essential and as long as sun is there it will
not be a difficult task to generate solar energy. The main
advantage that solar energy has over the other energy forms is
that its primary source is sun, and that it is freely
available.
More about the use of solar energy at home -
| 
