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Now more than ever, if you buy a solar panel system from some other dealer, you'll probably pay way too much.

Solar panels and complete home power systems and solar panel kits including inverters, mounting racks, solar powered refrigeration and cooling systems, batteries, charge controllers, cables, and solar powered water pumps. Residential solar panels from manufacturers like BP, Sharp, Shell, Solarworld, Photowatt, Sanyo, Kyocera and Mitsubishi Solar. Inverters by Xantrex, Sunny Boy, Outback Power, Heart Interface, Prosine, and Trace Engineering, just to name a few, at guaranteed lowest prices on the planet.

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Important News

 

If you've been considering solar power for your home or business, it's now time to celebrate ! After nearly a year of debates and nine previous attempts, in October of last year Congress finally approved a bill that not only extends the Federal 30% tax credit but also removes the $2,000.00 cap that existed on the previous residential tax credit. 


That's an incredible 30% with no cap for residential and commercial installations !

 

 

 

SUPER SPECIAL

 

Trina 230 Watt Ultra High Performance Residential Or Commercial Solar Power Panel.

 

Only $659.00 Each

This high performance, Mono Crystalline, big name brand, 230 Watt solar module blows the doors off the competition's offerings and they're on sale at a price that will knock your sox off.

Click Here To View This Incredibly Popular Panel.

 

 

 

Before You Buy A System From Any Dealer ...

 

A lot of "Overseas Solar Junk" has hit the U.S. market. Don't fall for sales gimmicks. Solar technology that cost less to manufacture should cost less to purchase. Know exactly what you're buying before you spend a dime.

Click Here to learn the ten questions you absolutely must ask before buying a renewable energy system for your home or business from any dealer.


 

 

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Solar panels for homes and businesses

 

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Off grid power systems for cabins

 

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Power Failure Protection Systems

 

With Summer heat waves right around the corner, it's now time to prepare yourself for  power failures

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We'll beat any advertised, in stock price on many of our most popular inverters or your inverter is free.

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Are you getting nothing but busy signals and answering machines from the dozens of new solar panel dealers that are cropping up on the Internet every week when trying to place your order ? Most of the solar dealers that you'll find on the Internet are not on the phone dealing with customers like they claim on their answering machines, they're simply not there.

 

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Solar Power Technology From Raw Silicon To Tapping The Sun's Limitless Energy.

 

Solar cells are devices that convert light energy (photons) into electricty (electrons) through a process known as the photovoltaic effect. The term "photovoltaic" is a Greek derivative coming from the terms (phōs) for light and "voltaic" for electricity. The photovoltaic effect was first discovered in 1839 by the French physicist A.E. Becquerel but the world would have to wait until 1883 for the first functional solar cell to be built by American inventor Charles Fritts. This first cell used Selenium and had an efficiency of 1%. In 1954 while experimenting with semiconductors, Bell Laboratories introduced the first practical silicon solar cell which was doped with specific impurities that began the evolution of what would become today's high efficiency solar technology.

 

Solar modules that used these early solar cells had an efficiency rating of about 6% which was first demonstrated in April of 1954. In 1958 Vanguard 1 became the first satellite to use solar technology to power its electronics in space. Today solar panel costs have dropped dramatically and have efficiency ranging from about 6% for thin film technology and up to 18% for conventional crystalline technology. Modern solar panels are used in home solar power power applications and Commercial Solar applications as well as off grid solar power and RV solar power uses. Solar power panel systems are even used to provide emergency power and for Solar powered air conditioning systems in homes and businesses.

Mono Crystalline (Single crystal) Silicon Cells

Mono crystalline or single crystalline solar cells are produced primarily by the Czochralski (Cz) process. The large diameter single crystal ingots that are created from this process are cut into thin wafers using thin wire saws. Conductive energy collection grids are silk screened onto the surface of these wafers and a functional solar cell is produced. Solar panels that utilize single crystalline solar cells offer among the highest efficiencies available on today's commercial market.

Poly Crystalline (Multi crystal) Silicon Cells

Solar cells that are created from polycrystalline or (multi crystalline) technology are cut from a silicon boule that has been casted from molten silicon and allowed to cool. The rate that the silicon is allowed to cool effects the size of the crystals that are formed. The multi crystalline solar cell is grown from lower grade silicon material which forms multifaceted crystals that grows in different directions. Conventional multi crystalline solar cells typically have a slightly lower efficiency resulting in larger individual cells and thus typically a slightly larger module. Most panels that are made today use polycrystalline solar cells.

 

Ribbon Silicon Technology

A process which cost less than traditional manufacturing techniques is known as "Ribbon Growth". Silicon is formed directly into thin wafers which avoid the expensive process of sawing silicon from a solid silicon boule. One such method is known as "Edge defined film fed growth" starts with two crystal seeds. A thin layer of silicon is formed as the seeds are pulled from a molten vat of silicon which produces a continuous ribbon of silicon. Solar panels that that use this technology are effective at saving material but the quality of the material produced is not as high as the Czochralski (Cz) process. Cell efficiency may also be reduced. Solar panels that use this type of technology are not as common as more traditional higher efficiency technologies.

 

 

UMG Technology (Ugraded Metalurgical Grade Silicon)

In an effort to save on materials and processing cost. A few manufacturers have turned to less pure silicon to manufacture solar cells. Unlike the nine 9s (99.9999999%) or even the eleven 9s (99.999999999) of purity that is the result of the conventional Siemens process, solar modules that are manufactured using UMG  are of less purity which can have an effect on efficiency. Several Canadian based solar companies have introduced these lower cost, lower efficiency based products into the European and U.S. markets.

 

 

CdTe Solar Technology (Cadmium Telluride Thin Film) Thin Film

Like their crystalline silicon thin film cousins, Cadmium Telluride CdTe solar suffers from the same stigma of lower efficiency. The primary difference between both crystalline silicon solar and Amorphous silicon solar when compared to CdTe solar is that CdTe does not utilize silicon in its design.

 

Instead CdTe solar panels use a compound which is formed by a combination of Cadmium and Tellurium blended with Zinc. Another difference between CdTe and more traditional solar panel technologies is that Cadmium one of the substances used to form the compound CdTe is an extremely toxic material with known cancer causing effects which raises concerns among health officials.

 

Cadmium telluride is toxic, but only if it is ingested or its dust is inhaled. There is also concern if it is handled improperly for example, without the use of appropriate gloves and other safety precautions. Although CdTe modules have been touted as being safe especially once encapsulated in a solar panel, environmental concerns remain if these solar panels are not be disposed of or recycled properly should they become broken, defective, or decommissioned at the end of their life cycle.

 

 

Amorphous Silicon Solar (Thin Film) Thin Film

Unlike crystalline silicon whose atoms are arranged in a very orderly fashion, the atoms in amorphous or thin film solar panels are not arranged in any specific pattern and in fact contain many structural and bonding defects. Amorphous solar panels are made by utilizing a vapor deposition process not unlike spraying the silicon which deposits a microscopic thin layer of doped silicon onto a glass substrate. Although thin film is less costly to manufacture than mono or poly crystalline technology they do suffer from several drawbacks, among them are a much lower efficiency. While mono and poly crystalline solar technologies typically produce power in the 12 to 15 percent efficiency range, thin film technology's efficiency range from 6 to 9 percent. Another drawback with Amorphous technology is an anomaly know as the Staebler-Wronski effect whereby the conversion efficiency of a Amorphous solar panel has the tendency to degrade causing a drop in output of up to 20% when it is first exposed to sunlight.

    

 

 

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Edison Customers:

Edison's $2,200.00 per kilowatt rebate expired on Wednesday May 27th 2009.

If you have not already submitted your rebate application then unfortunately it is too late to qualify for this higher rebate amount.

 
For a very limited time we will make up the loss between the higher rebate that is no longer available and the new lower rebate amount.

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185 Watt high efficiency Mitsubishi PV-UD185MF5 solar panels.

 

These home solar panels have proven to be one of the most reliable, high performance products that we've ever offered. Mitsubishi solar panels can be relied upon to produce electricity for decades to come.

 

Perfect for spinning your electric meter backwards or for off-grid use.

 

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