Feb 14th 2015, 3:13:04
Clearly panels in say, Arizona, will be more efficient than the same panels in Seattle where sun is a rarity. This is what you need to find out and the only real unknown. I would find a message board and start asking questions there. There are probably people out there that live in or near your area with similar setups that you are looking at and pick their brain.
Unfortunately, in most climates solar isn't efficient enough yet, but the technology is improving daily and I see it as a profitable industry not too far down the road. If you can get a setup efficient enough and you have long low load periods then yeah, you can roll your meter backwards. You clearly still need municipal power unless you are going crazy with capacitors and batteries and all that fluff. Self sufficient solar power isn't that realistic on a civilian budget.
Find what your power needs are, in kwh, and then research your options based on that. Chances are if you want to be efficient enough to where you eventually turn a profit then you either need a grant/subsidy, a messton of research, and/or hire someone that is good at this fluff and hope they wernt lying when they told you they were.
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