I live in Southern California. About 1100 square feet of my home’s roof space faces toward south. Another 700 square feet are from a covered porch facing the same direction. Where can I get a good estimate of the cost of installing and maintaining a solar panel system on my roof? I also want to know if there are any government rebates/incentives offered.

Solar panels are expensive and I am trying to raise some efficient fundraisers. Anyone have any ideas?

I am thinking about something called, I think, “thin layer solar panels”. Also would like info on any federal monetary help on paying to convert to all solar power in the home.

The colder a solar panel gets the more efficient it seems to be. As the panel warms, it loses some efficiency. Why is this so? Please explain in a way you would expect a high school kid to understand it, as I am a high-schooler and i have to explain this to other high-schoolers.

I was wondering how much it would cost to have solar panels installed in my house it’s not a big house I thinks it’s about 1500-2000 square feet and please don’t answer with links where I can get a a guy to come out and tell me I want to only people who have do e it before or do it for a liveing

roof to generate enough electricity for the home applicances and to heat the house ? How much does it cost to install solar panels for a 3-bedroom house?

I recently bought a house with very old solar panels (about 25 years old) that don’t appear to work properly. They are supposed to heat the hot water heater but they don’t always work, and recently have staretd leaking. So, I have had them turned off and now we’re just using electricity to heat the hot water. My question is, is there any tax credit money (stimulus or otherwise) available for people to (a) repair old solar panels or (b) replace them with new ones? How does the credit work?

How does the amount of chemical energy stored in plants compare to the electrical energy stored by solar panel/batteries?

I’m a student trying to design a mounting structure for solar panels. I’m reading about passive trackers so as to track the sun for optimal energy production; but I am not fully “seeing” how it works.

Can someone please help explain it to me, or at least send me a link(s) that could help explain it well?

THANKS IN ADVANCED!!
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We are doing a school project and we need to find out how many solar panels it would take, and how much it would cost, to produce 174 billion kWh/year. So, if someone were to try and produce this much energy, what solar panels would they use, how many of them, how large of an area would they cover, and how much would it cost?