By Y.T. Lee

There are many people who are not worried about their energy bills. In fact a few of them have arrangements with their banks to pay their utility providers directly. One fine morning such people will be surprised, that is if they bother to check their bank statements. The fact is that most such people hire accountants to undertake mundane tasks like going through bank statements. All that these people do is to sign the account statements prepared by their accountants. These people will, at one stage of time or another, realize the value of a solar energy house, when they eventually check their utility bills. They do not know that the costs of electricity have jumped up by leaps and bounds.

The utility companies announce such increase in prices in their bills, but one has to glance at these bills to know about the impending increase in costs. Unlike these people, there are another group of people who have value and respect for their hard earned money. They know that the power costs are getting out of hand and they search for alternatives like sourcing electricity through solar cells. Nature has gifted us with sunshine and it does not cost any money to access and use the same. The solar power cells convert the light energy emitted by the sun and turn it into electric power. The power can be directly fed into their electric gadgets or it can be stored in heavy-duty cells (like the ones used in automobiles) and use it as and when required.

Ask any person who has installed such solar cells, especially those who have assembled the same via kits available on the net and in stores that specialize in electric equipment, and they will tell you of the substantial savings they are benefiting. Those who are interested in installing a solar power rig in their home first have to calculate how much power they require from such cells. Once these formalities are over with, they can purchase a kit that will provide them with the requisite power. Installing such a kid is childs play and a basic knowledge of soldering is more than enough. The kits generally contain of individual solar cell modules, an exhaustive and illustrated setup manual and an aluminum panel to hold the completed solar cell array.

These cells are connected to each other in series and the final output point goes directly into the equipment that needs power or to the battery. These kits are so cheap that they pay off for themselves within a few months post installation. The current generation photovoltaic cells convert about 30% of sunlight that falls on them to electrical energy, but scientists are working to make more efficient photovoltaic cells that will provide more power per exposed meter of solar cells. The prime advantage of using solar cells for a solar energy house is that they hardly require any maintenance. Just dusting the panels once every few days to ensure that sunlight falls on them properly is more than enough.

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