No matter how handy you are, you might have a reason to hire a professional to install your solar panels. Here are the pros and cons of installing them yourself.

Solar energy might seem mysterious and advanced, but making a DIY solar panel is pretty easy if you’ve ever soldered anything in your life.

He made a 100-watt solar panel and mounted it on his roof beside his commercially produced 100-watt one and compared their output. The cost of his DIY panel rose quickly.

We built a portable solar panel trailer and battery bank which we can use as a 115 volt electrical source at any location on our homestead.

When you install solar panels, your home produces its own clean, zero-emissions electricity. If you’re DIY-minded, you can build your own solar power system. In some cases, you can even build ...

Want to know how to install solar panels yourself? Learn more from our resident contractor about things to keep in mind before this project.

Reader [unangst] pointed out to us an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, where a teenager from Nepal had managed to create a 9v, 18W solar panel using human hair rather than the usual semicond… ...

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The solar panels are operating at optimal parameters when they are at the perfect right angle to the sun. Unfortunately this is accomplished only if solar panels are rotated by the sun. This is the ...