| Solar panels are by far the most popular method of | | | | watts will not be sufficient to run an entire home, but |
| generating electricity for domestic use. Thousands of | | | | will be able to reduce your electricity costs. Of course |
| people are taking advantage of this technology. For | | | | you will want to take advantage of tax rebates and |
| many the option of building their own solar power | | | | cash incentives as well as local tax incentives in order |
| panels has been just beyond their reach, but this is not | | | | to reduce your costs. The government are offering |
| longer the case. | | | | 30%, whilst some people in some areas are able to |
| Anyone with a little handyman experience will be able | | | | reduce their costs by up to 75%. If you are able to |
| to produce excellent solar energy panels that are of a | | | | reduce your costs by an average of 40%, then your |
| professional standard and will produce as much | | | | cost per watt will be around $2.88. |
| energy as the prefabricated ones. Calculating the | | | | If you are paying in the region of $.12 per watt usage |
| costs of building your own makes the investment all | | | | per month, then it will take you some time to recover |
| the more viable. | | | | your initial investment. |
| So what are the Average Costs of Buying your | | | | The Average Cost of Building Your Solar Panels? |
| Panels? | | | | Building your panels will cost in the region of $2.20 per |
| At present the average cost per watt produced by a | | | | watt before incentives and $1.40 after. By building your |
| prefabricated panels is in the region of $4.80. If you | | | | own panels, you are also able to build them at a pace |
| wish to produce 200 watts a day of energy, your | | | | that you can afford and can install them yourself to |
| entire system will cost you in the region of $980. 200 | | | | reduce your costs further. |