There are many reasons why we should all use solar panels? to provide a source of clean, cheap and renewable power for our residence.

For some people, solar power is necessary due to their physical location, making it very difficult to actually install straightforward distributed electricity to their dwellings. For example living in the middle of nowhere.

Some people will use solar panels on their houses for more than just their own electricity requirements – if you can create enough, you can often sell the excess electricity back to the grid. Generally though, residential solar power creation is simply to lower household bills rather than to make money from the sun!

One often forgotten by-product of the modern throw away world in which we live in is the mass of energy used to generate all of our material possessions. Gadgets, TVs, audio equipment etc (you know things like cameras etc) all take energy not only to charge, but to generate. And it is the build aspect that is often forgotten – create your own power will allow you to some extent offset some of this excess!

Solar powered battery chargers for some of these things exist anyway, so even if you buy one of these items, at least you can do your bit to not plug your iPhones into the the next time it needs charging!
Companies are only just making use of big open spaces to make solar power that the rest of us can use to power our residence and until they do, the main source of solar energy will have to be generated locally.

So, to answer the initial question – why should we put solar panels in our dwellings? The answer is, for several reasons – save money, make money and help save the planet!

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