Residential Use of Photovoltaic Panels and Their Implications on Regional Power Webs
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Renewable Energy, Technology, ElectricityAbstract
More and more families are starting to construct a whole solar energy system in their houses with photovoltaic panels and battery components. This research primarily focuses on how residential and affordable photovoltaic panels implanted on houses' roofs can create a better and more sustainable regional power web. This research mainly focuses on the beneficial effects of connecting the residential photovoltaic panels to the regional power web from a family perspective and a regional power web perspective. The aim of this research is to find the answer for how domestic and affordable photovoltaic panels can develop a better sustainable energy cycle among families and electricity companies. Through using the general electricity data in America with some calculations to find how much money photovoltaic panels can save, along with some existing case studies, the result of this research shows that residential photovoltaic panels may not only can bring the economic retributions through selling and inputting the produced and surplus electricity to the regional power web but also bring the increasingly stable and abundant regional power web.
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