Solar Panel Efficiency And Size

Not all superheroes have the same powers.  The Hulk smashes, Quicksilver is fast, and Reed Richards is smart.  Could you imagine if comic lore was just a constant battle of size?  Each story was showing every challenging larger character, Galactus vs. Mega Galactus, ad infinitum.  Snooze alert.  The same concept can be applied to solar panel pricing game.  Bigger isn't always the best story.  However, when thinking about how to make the best and lowest-cost solar panel price decision, we have to weigh the cost to efficiency, and sometimes we will find, that smaller and more efficient solar panels are the greatest heroes of all.  

Overall Expenses Of Solar In Proportion To Size

The usual rule of the solar panel pricing game is: solar panel and solar installation costs will often rise as the size of the system grows.  This converse rule then is applied: the cost per watt will often decrease as the size of the solar panel array grows.  It's important to consider these solar panel pricing rules when you are attempting to make your next purchase.   

Average U.S. Solar Panel Power Usage

Now, when the concept of quantity and pricing for the installation of your photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on a house or business building, you must make an informed decision. Right now, in the United States, the average home consumes electricity at the rate of 1 kW per hour (kWh). And, when formulating that into the approximately 730 hours of each month, we arrive at an average price of a kWh of electricity is $0.10, or a monthly bill of $73 for 730 kWh of power.  State power costs and your utility extravagance can have a critical effect on averages, but, this is a useful data point to use in your future purchasing schema. 

How Many Sunshine Are Your Solar Panels Receiving?

Another consideration when thinking about size and efficiency in your solar panel purchase comes with examining your properties available sunshine.   Remember that the sun is open only during daylight hours, and the amount available per day is highly dependent on the extent of cloud cover. 
The averages across the USA vary from around 3 hours per day in places like Seattle, Chicago, and Pittsburgh, to 5 or 6 hours per day in states like Colorado and California, to a high of 7 hours per day in Arizona.  So, when you live in states with a typically less available sun, you must increase either the quality of your solar panels or the quantity of them to meet your energy needs.  Of course, all of the other considerations examined in this article must be held constant as well.

To make sure you are making the most informed decision on your low-cost solar panel purchase and installation, please gather the thoughts and data points expressed in this article.  It is time to be the hero of your story, and go solar.

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