Affordable Residential Solar Power Kits

Archive for September, 2008

There is light at the end of the tunnel! Scanning some new solar power reports coming out of Florida, one article in particular caught my eye.

Power Ready International’s Indoor Power System (IPS) has launched a new portable generator with some amazing attributes.

The new system does not require any gasoline, does not require a permit, can run on solar power and the internal battery can store 12,000 watts.

With the battery full, it can run for several days at about 3,000 watts and a couple more days if hooked into a 200 watt solar panel.

The system can stay fully charged and ready to use by either plugging into a conventional power outlet, hooking into residential solar power kits or windmill system or a combo of all three.

Should a hurricane or any other calamity knock out the power the Power Ready is at your command.

This is relatively new technology and the ballpark price for this unit is around $9000.

Yep, pretty steep but like I said it’s new technology with the company just opening last January.

I remember when Plasma television hit the market at around 5 grand and can now pick one up for $800 on sale so the main point here is that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

As demand increases for this product expect competition to bring the price down quickly.

Affordable solar power is making leaps and bounds just this year alone. Residential solar power kits are truly in the infancy stage and you too can build one for you home.

Solar panel kits are dropping in price almost daily and with a power generation and storage unit like the one produced by IPS it won’t be long unitl getting off the grid will be practicle for everyone.

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The solar watt has finally come home to roost for many unbelievers in the residential solar power kit world who just didn’t believe that the solar watt they created with their onboard solar generation system could actually pay them back.

If you are a ComEd customer living in the Chicago land area, here is a link you can follow in which you can have a net metering plan included in your power set up. The more power you generate the more you save and can actually earn power credits.

Some people were under the impression these types of plans just don’t exist but they do…almost anywhere and I will be digging up more info on this along with a short article on exactly how the net metering thing all works and how you can put the solar watt to work for you….stay tuned!

Net Metering

If you are a residential or commercial customer who owns or operates an eligible renewable electric generator of up to 2,000 kW that generates electricity for your own use, you may qualify for Net Metering.  An eligible renewable electric generator is one that is located on your premises and is powered by solar electric energy (e.g. photovoltaic), wind, dedicated crops grown for electricity generation, anaerobic digestion of livestock or food processing waste, fuel cells or microturbines powered by renewable fuels, or hydroelectric energy.

Net Metering will provide customers credits for the excess generated energy that flows onto the distribution system according to the terms of ComEd’s Net Metering tariff, Rider POGNM – Parallel Operation of Retail Customer Generating Facilities with Net Metering.

You can download the Net Metering Application Form or call 1-877-426-6331 for more information.

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