Have You Ever Wondered What Amount Of Energy A Solar Panel Can Produce? Well This Is The Article For You

Do you know everything there is to know about electricity?  No? Well, it's often not the case that people are professional academics on the subject; let alone how much electricity a solar panel can create.  You might have been caught up in a situation where people have made strong suggestions to you concerning output ratings, and what that might mean for your home or business.  It's hard to know where to start with it all, but we are here to help.  

How Much Energy Can A Solar Panel Create For Your Home Or Office?

Light from the sun, our nearest star, will vary depending on where you live but for the sake of an example, if you are taking 5 hours of direct sunlight in a sunny state like California you can figure it this way: 5 hours x 290 watts (a wattage of a premium solar panel) = 1,450 watts or roughly 1.5 kilowatt-hours (kwh). Thus each solar panel in your system would generate a little over 500-550 kWh of energy per year. And years are a long time.

When it comes to rating solar, they have their own metric.  Solar panels are rated by the quantity of DC (direct current) power they produce under standard test conditions. Solar panel power output is revealed in units of watts (W), and represents the panel’s general power production under ideal sunlight and temperature conditions. Most home solar panels on the market today have power output ratings varying from 250 to 400 watts, with higher power ratings generally considered favored to lower power ratings. The cost of solar is typically measured in dollars per watt ($/W), and the total wattage of your solar panels plays a meaningful part in the total cost of your solar system. When you purchase or install a solar photovoltaic (PV) energy system, the amount you pay is typically based on the complete power output of the solar panels in the system (expressed in watts and kilowatts).

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The system you choose will have a rating.  A solar panel system with a total rated capability of 5kW (kilowatts) could be made up of either 20 250-Watt panels or 16 300-Watt panels. Both systems will produce the same amount of power in the same geographic location. Though a 5kW system may produce 6,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power every year in Maine, that same system will produce 8,000 kWh every year in Bakersfield because of the amount of sun each location gets each year. And a year is a long time.

Its rated power output governs the electricity generated by a solar PV system, but it’s also dependent on other factors such as panel efficiency and temperature sensitivity, as well as the severity of shading that the system experiences and the inclination angle and tip of the roof on which it exists.

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We hope you have enjoyed learning about some energy and placement considerations as you plan your solar future.  You can continue to learn more throughout our website.  We have thousands of blogs covering a range of solar panel topics, and we are certain to inform with every aspect of how solar panels are covered.  This is your chance to learn all you can about solar panels so that you can purchase the best price possible when you order your solar panel system..

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