Before you begin your project, you’ll want to make sure that you can produce enough energy to make your project pay for itself, sooner rather than later.  How much solar energy watt power do you need to cover around half of your power bill for example? This is how you calculate it… Step One – [...]

Even if you are building your own solar panels which is going to save you a lot of money, there are ways that you can reduce your costs even further and get really cheap solar panels.  Knowing where you main expense is and finding cheaper components is the way to go. Solar Cells Cost the [...]

This is definately one of the most important questions you should be asking.  The cost of building your panels is only relevant to the amount of energy that they are going to produce and how much money you are going to save.  Here is a list of all the costs involved, even those nasty hidden [...]