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 [...]

The first question that most people ask when they hear that I built my own solar panels is how do they work and are they easy to build. Ok, so first two questions, but they usually come together, so I’ll answer them here together. First… How Do Solar Panels Work? An easy explanation is that [...]