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Upgrade Your Home to Solar Generated Electricity

Daniel J. Stouffer
December 29, 2007
Residential Solar Power is About to Hit Mainstream

Be on your way towards a safer, cleaner, and more renewable energy source for your home. Feel good about living with today's environmentally friendly choices. US homeowners can now rental solar panels and generate their own electricity.

Early this century, Thomas Edison had a conversation with American industrialist pioneers. The Great Inventor said, "I would put my money on the sun and solar power. What a creator of energy! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we try solar energy."

The World has waited 76 years, but a green energy company has finally produced an alternative. The sun supplies enough energy to earth in one hour to supply all of our energy needs for 12 months. But currently solar energy generates less than one half of 1 percent of our residential energy needs. Why?

Historically, solar power has been too costly and too complicated. To upgrade to solar energy, homeowners had to sell their second car. The average resident pays $40,000 to switch their home to solar generated electricity; plus resident are responsible for the installation, maintaining the solar panels & related materials, taking out permits. Who has the skills (or the money) for this?

A new company has a bold plan to restrict all of the traditional barriers to solar power. This new company offers: No solar system purchase. No installation expenses. No maintenance of the solar energy system. No permit hassles. No performance troubles. No rental fee increases. No kidding!

When we first learned about this renewable energy idea, we were so blown away that we contacted this new company. It seemed almost like it was too good to be true. Like most innovations, their fresh approach is so straight forward it makes you wonder why no one thought of solar rentals before.


You simply pay this innovator the same rate per kilowatt for energy that you used to send to your energy company. This new service will guarantee that your rate per kilowatt of energy will not go up to twenty five years. With ever increasing power rates, this gives consumers comfort and can equate to significant savings. This solar rental company even have a solar calculator on their site that displays how much you may save over 1, 5, and 25 yrs. The author saved over $18,000 and by using clean solar energy. It is the just like taking 27 trucks off the road or planting 400 trees. Nice!

Historically, rethinking solar implied sacrifice. Today, you get to feel empowered about helping the planet but most green products are more hard to obtain than their dirty energy counterparts. With this green company, utilizing renewable solar power can actually be really easy to do.

Getting a residential solar energy system is all made possible by net metering laws that require the energy companies to allow solar generated electricity to flow into the power system and then enable the consumer to pull that same amount of energy off of the grid at no cost to the homeowner. In essence, the grid becomes a energy container. The energy meter spins backwards during the day when the sun is producing power and forwards at night when the homeowner draws that energy back off the grid.

These net-metering laws were passed because residential energy production was the number one cause of environmental harm in the US last year. There are still 9 states that have not joined the party. American homeowners may be still a little apprehensive about this new idea. To learn more about residential solar energy, you can visit some of the resources provided on these pages.
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Daniel J. Stouffer

I am Daniel Stouffer. I am a part-time writer, passionate Solar Energy Consultant, and a full-time Product Manager for Refrigerant Tracker, a solution to help manage, track, report refrigerant gases.

Educated in English and Mathematics, I dabble in writing pieces of this or that on the Internet while I work my day job building demand side energy management, carbon footprint reporting, and refrigerant gas tracking software.

I work for Verisae, Inc. I'm deeply involved in carbon management and renewable energy. My quest is to bring solar energy to U.S. Residential homeowners and to better manage the substances that harm our environment.

I'm also a small business owner working to promote the adoption of renewable energy. Solargies (Solar Energies), my goal is to spread the use of renewable solar power as simply and as rapidly as possible. He is also a writer, investing his time and energies educating people about renewable energy, the exciting world of interactive marketing, and other oddities of interest. (www.Solargies.com)

My personal mission statement: To gather data, to distill information, to build knowledge, and to attain wisdom. To learn, to work hard, and to be internally motivated when acquiring skills. "Every person that you meet knows something you do not - learn from them."

Verisae's Refrigerant Tracker and the Enterprise Carbon Footprint (ECF) products allows companies to take inventory of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and refrigerant gas emissions. CO2 gas, Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), and refrigerant gas emissions are tracked and better manage. Organizations can have a direct effect on the environment through better data management and taking accurate inventories of all greenhouse gases (GHGs) that contribute to their Carbon Footprint.

In my position, I work collaboratively with client teams to understand their goals, document the solution, and mange User Centered Design projects. I'm driven to implement solutions that deliver measurable business value and enhanced user experience.

As a Product Manager for Refrigerant Tracker, I help design how to make the right content available to the right people at the right time. My role involves the design of interactive systems that help users find and manage information or functionality more successfully. (www.refrigerant-tracker.com)