Solar Power needs sun exposure
Solar systems only generate power when the sun is out. The solar panels in the system use the sun’s light to produce electricity.
While the panels are less efficient on cloudy days, they still do produce electricity.
One of the common misconceptions about solar power is that you can’t offset your entire electric bill because it doesn’t produce anything at night. However, this is not the case.
When you have a system professionally installed by Simple Solar, we can size the system so that it produces enough power during the day while the sun is out that it offsets all of your usage. By doing this, you effectively use the utility company as a way to store your extra power produced during the day.
At night, when your system isn’t producing power, you get what you need from the grid. If the system is sized correctly, the power you put on the grid offsets the amount you take off. This means that even though your system isn’t producing at night, it can produce more than what you need during the day.
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