Solar power panels utilise the free, natural, renewable resource - solar power and installing solar panels will reduce your energy bill, your carbon footprint as well as your dependency on fossil fuels and utility companies. In the following paragraphs we will discuss the different types of solar power systems that you can install in your property. The systems in the following paragraphs include water heating systems, evacuated solar tubes and PV electric solar power panels.

Water Heating Solar Panels

These solar systems work throughout the year and heat your domestic warm water. A hot water tank or a conventional boiler is used to heat the water even more if required or if there is low solar energy. It is recommended to set up an excellent efficient hot water tank to fully get the benefits of solar water heating systems and if you’ve got a combination boiler without a hot water tank then solar water heating might not be compatible.

With water heating solar systems you’ll be able to save over half a lot of CO2 emissions, dependant on the fuel you’ll be replacing e.g. gas or more to ?100 you water heating bill. Water heating solar systems generally provide higher annual outputs than evacuated tubes.

Evacuated Solar Tubes

These systems will also be for heating your water, but make use of a different technology than the solar power panels described above. These use glass solar tubes, as opposed to the flat glass, also, since they are tubes they’ve the ability to absorb 360 degrees of solar energy, which provides a more even output of power during the day.

PV Solar Panels

These systems generate electricity from daylight via a process called photovoltaic’s. The “photo” describes light and “voltaic” describes electricity. Although these solar power panels generate their electricity from light they can still work on cloudy days since the photons penetrate through the clouds. If you wish to fully benefit from solar power then PV solar panels are what you need. Using these panels you can aquire a Feed-in Tariff in which you get paid for every unit of electricity you generate even the ones you utilize. Because of the feed-in tariff your energy bills will disappear by as much as 100 %.

Not only will feed-in tariffs benefit you from your PV cell installation, the systems may also greatly increase the value of your home. Furthermore the average household uses 3000 kWh each year, so if you install a small 1kW system you will lay aside 25% of the electricity within the year because a PV system generally would generate 750 kWh/year per kW installed.

Gerald have a background education in architecture and have recently done some self-employed work on consulting for the promising industry of environmentally friendly and renewable energy. You can read more about the residential solar panel system right here on his blog.