Before the
installation of a solar energy system, many homeowners have some questions in
their minds about the size of solar panels and their fitting process on the
roofs. The design of your solar panel system depends upon a number of factors
like available space, slope of your roof, orientation of your home. Let’s
discuss how these factors play an important role in determining the design of
solar panel installation.
Orientation of your
home is an important factor and needs consideration before the installation of
solar panels. For the purpose of collecting maximum energy from the sun,
install solar panels where they face south direction. It is the possibility
that your roof does not have a southern sunlight exposure due to some
obstruction like trees or other homes. In this case, we may consider a ground
mounted solar panels instead of the roof mounted solar panels.
Plan proper angle of
the solar panels if the orientation of your home gives sunlight exposure from
the south. The pitch of your roof also helps deciding the installing angle of
solar panels. The best angle, to install solar panels, is an inclination of 40
degrees plus or minus 15% in the south direction. Steeper roof is not
appropriate to get maximum sunlight, in this case ground mounted solar panels
can work. If the roof of your home is not that steep, roof-mounted solar panels
can be arranged to receive maximum sun exposure.
The size of solar
panels for homes depends on your roof construction and effective areas. Load
ratings of your roof and ideal available space for solar panel installations
are two important factors which require consideration for the safe and
effective solar panel installation. Ground mounted solar panels have a large
capacity of 20 kilowatts as compared to the roof mounted solar panels, which
have size range of 3 to 10 kilowatts. It depends on your required capacity to
what type of solar panels systems would be appropriate for you - ground mounted
or roof mounted.
Smith Sustainable
Design has expert planners for solar panel systems ready to examine your homes
for ideal
solar panel installations. In order to design an effective solar
power system, our team of experts carefully evaluates your site and its
surroundings. Contact us to begin solar system planning for your home starting
from the site evaluation.
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