Most residential customers don’t need custom systems to generate electricity or hot water. Our pre-packaged systems are built with components that we have selected from the best technologies and values on the market.
The percentages of electricity produced are based on a “typical” home in PEPCO’s service area, which uses 850 kWhs of electricity per month (10,200 kWhs per year).
These systems will return between 8% and 20% on investment (depending on government incentives and final pricing). Smaller systems have smaller ROIs.
Standardized Systems
- Starter solar electric system (1.0 kW)
- Budget solar electric system (2.28 kW)
- Mainstream solar electric system (4.5 kW)
- Option 1: Daytime Protection against Electrical Outages
- Option 2: Full-time (Battery Back-up) Protection against Electrical Outages
Starter Solar Electric System
This 1.00.KW system will meet approximately 15% of a typical home’s annual electric needs and let you add panels as your budget allows. Disappointed that your budget “only” allows for a starter system? Here’s another way to look at it.
In the DC metro area, this system will generate an average of 1292 kW-hours a year.
Over its 30-year lifespan, this system will save 39.9 tons of carbon dioxide – equivalent to removing 7.25 cars from the road. It takes about 1023 new trees to absorb an equivalent amount of CO2 produced by fossil fuels.
Contact us for system details, solar panel datasheets, the inverter datasheet, system economics, and pricing information for your home.
Budget Solar Electric System
This 2.28 KW system will meet approximately 30% of a typical home’s annual electric needs.
In the DC metro area, this system will generate an average of 2946 kW-hours a year.
Over its 30-year lifespan, this system will save 79.8 tons of carbon dioxide – equivalent to removing 14.5 cars from the road. It takes about 2046 new trees to absorb an equivalent amount of CO2 produced by fossil fuels.
Contact us for system details, solar panel datasheets, the inverter datasheet, system economics, and pricing information for your home.
Mainstream Solar Electric System
This 4.50 KW system will meet approximately 60% of a typical home’s annual electric needs.
In the DC metro area, this system will generate an average of 5814 kW-hours a year.
Over its 30-year lifespan, this system will save 157.5 tons of carbon dioxide – equivalent to removing almost 29 cars from the road. It takes about 4038 new trees to absorb an equivalent amount of CO2 produced by fossil fuels.
Contact us for system details, solar panel datasheets, the inverter datasheet, system economics, and pricing information for your home.
Solar Electric System Options
Option 1: Inexpensive Daytime Protection against Electrical Outages
For about $1000, we can install an electrical sub-panel that will enable your solar system to directly power your house during the daylight hours of an electrical outage. Depending on the generating capacity of your system, this can protect you from the worst effects of a prolonged blackout: losing all the food in your refrigerator and freezer and freezing your house’s pipes. Depending on the size of your system and how you ask us to prioritize circuits in your house, your furnace, heat pump, and air conditioning will also work during daytime hours.
Option 2: Full-time (Battery Back-up) Protection against Electrical Outages
If you’ve considered a back-up generator to protect your house from prolonged and widespread electrical outages, here’s a safer, greener, and more dependable option. For about 15% more than the cost of your installed solar system, we can add a battery back-up system that will store enough electricity to keep your house going through the night.
During widespread outages, back-up generators that are fueled with gasoline, diesel, or kerosene have limitations, because nearby gas stations without electricity can’t provide you with fuel. And needless to say, storing fuels at your home can be very dangerous. Electrical authorities nationwide agree that electrical outages will become more frequent over the many years that it will take to re-build the electrical grid and make it “smarter.” If your electric company is selling backup generators, what does that tell you?