Even though I'm a Do-It-Yourselfer, I wanted my solar to look GOOD! One of the more common arguements I hear against solar is that people don't like the look. My house also happens to be on a busy road, with plenty of traffic going past. It has plenty of safety features and a legal agreement with my power company regarding how power is bought and sold from each other. If MORE solar is being created than is being used, it gets exported to the utility, and the producer of the energy gets credited for it! FULLY-PERMITTED My dream was to be able to produce all the electricity my home uses, and in the summer when solar production is at a peak, actually EXPORT renewable energy to my neighborhood! This is a FULLY PERMITED system, inspected by my local building inspector and approved and working with my local power company. If more power is still needed, it can be brought in from the power utility. (Off-Grid is great too, but it's not what we are talking about today!) GRID-TIE In a grid-interactive system, a home is already connected to the power utility and remains connected to the utility but also has the ability to create and use solar energy. That means that I'm WORKING WITH my electric utility to be a producer of energy with them. To start with, this is a "Grid-Tie" or "Utility-Interactive" solar system. Welcome! In this Instructable, I'd like to show you how I installed my own grid-interactive solar array, so that you can too!
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