When we think of solar power most generally, we envision a huge number of panels and batteries everywhere.  With grid, connect solar power you do not have as many solar panels and do not need any batteries.  If you live in a house that all ready has electricity and are thinking of changing to solar power this is the best way to go.

With grid, connect solar panels you will need four components:

• Solar panels, the solar panels are what absorb the sunlight to great you power.

• Solar panel mounting system, this is what holds your solar panels in place.

• Suitable wiring, without suitable wiring you cannot get the power from your panels to the house.

• Grid connect inverter, Changes the direct current electricity that the panels produce to alternate current so you can use it with your appliances.

With these four components, you will have full use of the grid connect solar power system.

Pros and Cons of the System

The first pro and most important is the lower electric bill.  Once you have system installed, you will start to produce your own electricity and will not have to use the high priced electricity from your local company.  Another good thing about having this system is that the electric company will not have to produce the power you are using.

The biggest con to having any solar panel system is that at night you produce no power what so ever.  Then you have cloudy when your system produces very little power.  On cloudy days, you will have to use some electricity from the power company.  With the grid, solar power system when the power company has a blackout or power faller your power will go out also.

Maintenance

With the grid solar power system there is very little or no maintenance.  The only real maintenance there is Mother Nature generally will do with rain.  This is to clean the solar panels.

What Does it Cost to Have a Grid Connect Solar System Installed.

The cost of having the system installed will depend on whether you are going to completely supply all of your own power or if you want to start out with a partial supply and build up to a full supply.  If you start out small, you will be looking at about $12,000 dollars.  Moreover, for a full supply of you house it will set you back about $ 35,000 dollars.

Making Too Much Juice

What happens if you produce more electricity than you can use in a day?  When this happens and it will, the electricity will feed back into the grid and the power company will pay you for it.  Well they will give you credit on your bill.

Therefore, as you see the grid connect solar power system is not cheap to have installed but it is well worth the cost.  When using this system in just a few months of cheap electric bills or no electric bills will pay for the system.