Can You Really Eliminate Your Electric Bill with Solar Power?

Can You Really Eliminate Your Electric Bill with Solar Power?

Even if you don’t build a solar battery, your solar panels can completely eliminate your monthly power expenditures if your local utility provider allows net metering. 

Understanding Grid-tied Solar Projects

You will continue to be linked to the local electricity grid when you install a grid-tied solar system. The middle of the day, when your home consumes the least power, coincides with the time when solar panels produce the greatest electricity, as we already said. This implies that your solar panels will likely provide more electricity than what you need for your house. 

The extra energy is then transmitted to the grid and utilized to power additional structures when this occurs. By doing this, the electric business may preserve fossil fuels and lessen the load on the electrical infrastructure. And don’t worry, your home uses all the solar energy you generate first, giving you priority access to the electricity they produce. You only contribute power to the system that you don’t consume. 

The best aspect of the agreement is that you will receive credit for all or a portion of the cost for each kilowatt-hour of solar energy you send to the grid if your utility provider enables net metering. You can subsequently use a kWh of energy from the grid without paying full price if you export one kWh of power. You will receive that kWh for free if your utility provider provides full-retail net metering. 

Because of net metering, your solar panels can still lower your monthly electric costs to zero even though they cannot always provide all of your home’s energy needs. Full-retail net metering isn’t accessible everywhere, which is a shame. 

Solar Power for an Entire House

A smart net metering scheme may guarantee that your solar panels always pay for your electricity bills, even when they can’t always power your entire house. Solar power is likely to be unprofitable for you if net metering isn’t available in your location. Until installs get a little less expensive, at least. Solar batteries can lessen your reliance on pricey grid power, but they can substantially raise the cost of your system as a whole. 

Solar panels and batteries are a terrific method to power your home, though, if you’ve got the cash and your main priority is minimizing your environmental effect.