Should We Risk Using Solar Panels in Winter?
You may be wondering how solar panels can work in an area that experiences severe winters. After all, days or weeks of dark skies, snow flurries or heavy rains hardly seem compatible with a technology that depends on sunlight to run it.
But the last 10 years have brought a lot of innovation and progress to solar panel technology. Now, even when it's snowy, cloudy or rainy, solar panels can easily make electricity.
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Off grid systems will include a set of storage batteries (similar to a car battery) that are designed to store extra power that your solar panels generate during the daytime. If the battery storage system is properly designed for your region, it will have the right number of these batteries to store power for the number of cloudy days that are typical for where you live.
If your system is tied to the grid (connected to the local electric company) it won't use storage batteries. Once the sun goes down or if there is a prolonged period of bad weather obscuring the sun, your system will automatically use electricity from the local power company. Of course, during sunny days, your solar panels will be generating your electric power, so you will still be benefitting from lower electric bills.
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In some places, you may even be able to sell power back to your local power company. This is yet another way solar panels can prove cost effective. How this works is that any surplus electricity that your solar panels generate goes back into the energy company and you are allowed a credit for it on your electric bill. That way, even if you have to use electricity from the grid at night or during overcast days, any excess power that your solar panels were able to generate will still be reducing your overall utility bills.