More and more people are wanting to become more energy independent. Making your own electricity is the easiest and most flexible energy that you can do yourself. The best part of all is that you do not have to spend all your savings to make a solar panel or windmill.
With all the electricity that you will be creating you will have to decide what you are going to use it for. Now that you are generating your own electricity; you can use it to power your small garage like the lighting, your house, and much more.
One of the biggest things that people are doing when they generate their own electricity is that they sell it back to the power company to make a little profit. Once you are creating most of your own energy you will be able to live without any power from the utility company, now isn't that great.
The following things you should know about making your own electricity at home:
***Do you live in a sunny place? Then you should really user solar energy to make your electricity.
***Is it always windy around your house? The best thing you can use to make power would be a windmill.
***Have a river near your house or near you with flowing water? Then how about using micro-hydro, sometimes it makes work better than solar and wind combined. ***The best way to generate energy is to use a combination of the power sources.
***If your house is connected to a grid line, which is when you have electrical power delivered from a utility company you should consider using a "Grid Tie."
***But if you aren't remote or connected to the electrical grid, or want to generate your own power then you should consider a self-contained solution.
How to Generate Power with Solar Power:
You have to think about the location that you put your solar panels before you start making it. The solar panel should be mounted facing south to the sun exposure, which is north-facing in the Southern Hemisphere, up-facing near the equator. Having clear weather most of the year is helpful, plus light overcast conditions are sometimes beneficial.
OK, you have the location but now you need to know about the angle, the angle should be adjusted according to your latitude. They should point straight up at any latitude, but sometimes will lose some efficiency and then you will need to build more solar panels. Do not worry about having so much solar panels, the more you have the more electricity you will be making.
The fixed mounted solar panels have their own structure which contains housing for batteries and charge controllers. If you decide to place a fixed mounted solar panel on the roof it will be difficult to mount and even harder to maintain.
Make Your Own Electricity with Wind Energy:
***Windmills can be bought pre-packages which might mean they are less expensive then the solar panels
***You might need a special charge controller with a "diverter load," which is a big resistor, but can be a 12 or 14 volt electric water heater element.
***You need the wind speed in your area to make a windmill work well
***Some windmills can be noisy. But not for you since you are making your own and you will have great plans that will tell you how to build them correctly
***Everyone will be able to see it, which might be an "eyesore" to some people
***Sometimes you will have birds that will kind of not make it though the wind blades, but no worry you can always clean the (if you want too)
You need desolated areas where the wind is consistent plus with very few things blocking it like trees or high building. Wind power supplements solar power at night or on cloud days to make energy when your solar panels aren't.
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