Installing solar panels/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

太阳能panel installation
太阳能photovoltaic

Ten questions to ask a solar panel contractor

...太阳能PanelsSpecial Offer from Tesla . Aresolarpanelsworth the money? To find out the dollar per kilowatt hour ($/kWh) your PVsolarsystem will cost, divide the total cost of maintaining andinstallingit by the amount of electricity it will produce over its entire lifetime. Your contractor should offer a tota...

Off-grid home with solar PV & Battery backup
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Thinking about renewable home energy and a battery backup?

...solarfarm or a windmill, you are already a consumer of renewable energy. Guided by that sort of thinking, from a climate-conscience point of view, it is your local power source that really determines whether you will be reducing your personal emissions byinstallingsolarpanels.Installinghome battery systems: ...

How solar panels work
太阳能photovoltaic

All about solar panels - the different options and how they work

...太阳能Roof, find more info pages about太阳能PV & sustainable & resilient green building techniques here : Choosing betweensolartrackers & fixedsolarpanel mounts All aboutsolarpanels- the different options & how they work Ten questions to ask asolarpanel contractor T eslasolarpanels-...

太阳能panel reflectors
太阳能photovoltaic

Using reflectors to increase the yield of solar panels

...solarpower generation: 10 questions to ask asolarpanel installation contractor All aboutsolarbatteries for home power storage Choosing between asolartracker or fixedsolarmount Discover more about the Tesla太阳能Panel special offer , find out more aboutsolarphotovoltaicpanels在这里,或如果你…

Where to place solar panels
Renewable energy

Where to place solar panels

...solarpanel is necessary when not using asolartracker. Trackers are not practical for thermalpanelsdue to the weight but are used for PVpanels.太阳能trackers follow the sun’s path across the sky and can track the daily changes in incidence. A general rule for capturing directsolarenergy when not using a track...

Tiny House living in cold climates - one of the best tiny homes on wheels
Tiny house

Tiny Houses - Living in Cold Climates

...solarpanel heating system. How to Insulate and Heat a Tiny House Energy and performance of Ben Hayward's Tiny House R-48+ walls Floors ranging from R-42 to R-120 under the bathroom Triple-pane sliding patio door Photovoltaicpanelsand a wind turbine will power two hot water tanks for radiant heating and...

Earthship in Taos, New Mexico, shame they don't work in cold climates
Concept and design

Do Earthships work in cold climates?

...solarpanelsand wind, propane is typically used for cooking, and in colder climates water heating. Rainwater is collected, stored in large plastic cisterns and filtered for residential use; waste water is treated on site and used for growing food. The south-facing wall is all windows and acts as a heat collector a...

太阳能panels power the Kenogami House in Saguenay, Quebec
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

The Kenogami House: Energy systems in Net Zero Energy Home Design

...panelscan be fed back into the power grid. Thermalsolarsystems do not lend themselves well tosolartrackers (panels,跟随太阳to maximize efficiency) which is not uncommon to see with PVsolarsystems. On average, a photovoltaic system has a much longer service life than asolarthermal system. For ...

Off-grid, passively-heated LEED Gold home
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

OFF GRID LIVING BLOG, PART 3: All about off-grid power generation in off-grid homes

...panels: 12太阳能world 235 wattpanels(2820W in total) Additionalpanels(fall of 2015) : 12 Jinko 250 wattpanels(3000 w)的电池: 8 Deka deep cyclesolarbatteries, lead acid AGM 12V 265 Ah (a nominal 25 kWh storage) Backup generator: Generac Ecogen, 6 kW Electronics: Schneider MPPT 80 600 Charge...

Passively-heated off-grid LEED house in Low, Quebec
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog: a firsthand account of building and living in a remote area

...solarpanelstucked onto the north side of the clearing to reduce the shading from the trees. Unlike most of the homes built along the waterfront in our area, we did not clear sightlines towards the water, nor did we square the house with the shoreline. We have a screened view of the water, which actually makes those g...

Off grid, passively heated and cooled house in the Gatineau Hills, Que
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off grid living blog, part 2: passively heated, this house in Quebec aims for LEED certification

...solarpanels, and heated by a woodstove and radiant floors warmed by a propane boiler. A double exterior wall system reduces heat loss to a fraction of what you would expect from most other new houses being built. Off Grid Homes can also be attractive © Bala structures Exterior wall composit...