What would these solar panels power? For instance, my energy bill shows 2035kWh for last month. How much would this remove from that if it outputted full power? Thanks!
note breath on the winds excellent answer is one quarter of one percent. See why houses aren't covered in solar panels? it's just not a real answer right now,. the rough rule of thumb is $0 per kWh ( for just the panels) you want to produce. You'd need $20,000 in panels and another 0,000 in controllers and inverters and batteries and who knows how much in installation.
These panels are for small remote applications. Traffic signs, motion sensor lights, etc, where it would cost more to run an electrical line than it does to buy the panel.
60 Watt Solar Kit 60 watts not much. Max. Power*: 60 Watts Voltage at Maximum Power (Vpm): 6.7 V Current at Maximum Power (Ipm): 3.30 A 0 or 20 of them plus inverter plus battery's not real viable I think how much energy was used in the manufacture of the cells,unfortunately a long way to go
A solar panel that is rated at 60 watts would produce that amount under the most favorable conditions of direct sunlight at noon in a good location. This would taper off to nothing at the beginning and ends of the daylight. A 60 watt Panel operating at full output for hour would produce 60 watt hours. If we assumed a straight line of output from zero to 60 watts and back to 0 again over 6 hours the average output would be 30 watts x 6 hours = 80 watt hours / day x 365 days = 65700 watt hours in a year / 2 = 5475 watt hours in a month. You lose about 0% converting from DC to AC. This reduces this to about 4927.5 watt hours. Your bill is measured in KW hr which are 000 times bigger. This is 4.9275 KW hr or .24% of your last month's bill. At a national average of about $.2 per KW hr the energy out put for one month would be equal to about 60 cents.
For okorder As for that kit you are looking at, that is more suitable for mounting on a travel trailer somewhere where you are camping to recharge the deep cycle battery for the low voltage appliances you are using. Right now is probably a good time to start looking at ways of either running on low voltage, say for general lighting in a basement, or shed, and putting up some means of maintaining those batteries with solar and or wind. If you start small, you can add on at any time.
