Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Residential Wind Power - Home Solar And Wind Power Systems




www.SolarEnergyGuide.net - How to Make a Homemade Solar Panel Solar panels, unlike before, are cheap and easy to install with great efficiency. With this advent, you can save big money as well as help save the environment. A DIY kit is available and has an easy to follow instruction with them. What you need is some simple tools and you're done. Here is your guide to make a homemade solar panel 1. First, you must know the loads of your solar panel and the package that is affordable to you. One watt of solar panel module will coast you about $25 and a 200 watts module is around $1000. If you need more power, you can connect this to form a collector to produce your desired power needs. Electrical connections are made in series to achieve a desired output voltage and/or in parallel to provide a desired amount of current capability. 2. After selecting the solar panel modules, you need a charge controller which is an important system component that regulates the voltage generated by the solar panel. This will regulate your power and provide protection to the batteries from being over or under-charged. 3. Next, you need a solar inverter this will convert 12 volt DC (direct current) from solar panel to 125 volts AC (alternating current) which will feed your appliances. Some high end inverters combine an inverter, battery charger and dual transfer switch in one package. 4. Batteries are needed if there is no sun or there is a blackout in your area. Typically, lead acid batteries <b>...</b>



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USA Today

Home solar gets $280 million boost from Google
Christian Science Monitor
To this end, Google has invested in wind farms in North Dakota, California and Oregon, solar projects in California and Germany, and the early stages of a transmission system off the East coast meant to foster the construction of offshore wind farms. ...
Google Invests $280 Million in Fund to Install Home Solar PanelsForbes (blog)
Google-SolarCity fund to install home solar panelsSan Francisco Chronicle
Google invests $280 million in SolarCityCNN
Reuters -eWeek -Los Angeles Times
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White House Pushes to Add Wind, Solar to Grid
NewsMax.com
The White House is pushing policies to upgrade the aging electrical grid to handle energy from the new power sources of wind and solar. The policies include a “smart grid” that would deliver power from renewable sources and reduce ...

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Environmental Leader

White House pushes policies to upgrade nation's aging electrical network
Washington Post
Transmission lines are not equipped to handle the expected influx of wind and solar energy. And consumers have no idea how, exactly, they are spending their electricity dollars — or how to save them. That's why the White House on Monday announced ...
White House plugs for cleaner, info-rich smart gridCNET
Oracle Among Tech Companies Seeing Smart Grid OpportunityInvestor's Business Daily
Obama Administration Establishes Initiatives For Grid ModernizationRenew Grid

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Daily Mail

Hands free: Now you can Google search by VOICE on your home or office computer
Daily Mail
Google also announced a $280million investment in residential solar energy projects. The Internet company has long expressed interest in renewable energy, and has invested money in solar projects and electric cars before, as well as wind power. ...

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WTRF

Division of Energy Director Says W.Va. Embraces Energy Supplier Role
WTRF
“We seem to have (federal government) buy-in on solar and wind, but we need more than solar and wind to meet our nation's energy needs. “It's easy to object to things like power plants and power lines,” he said. “It's harder to say that our long-term ...

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