Home Solar

A home solar system generates electricity from sunlight. Although they may look complicated, solar panels have very few moving parts and require little or no maintenance. They make no noise and no pollution – just clean, reliable electricity directly from the sun.

Key Parts

A Sungevity home solar system is comprised of solar panels, the racks for putting the panels on your roof, electrical wiring, and an inverter. Solar panels are mounted on your roof and wired together. During daylight hours they generate electricity and send it to your inverter where it then flows into your home to be used by your appliances. 

Net Metering

When you install a residential solar system, your utility monitors how much power you use. If your solar system generates more electricity than you need, your system will send the extra power to your utility, and you will receive a credit on your bill for the power you created but didn't use. If you use more power than you generate (like at night, for example) you draw power from your utility as usual. Your utility will bill you based on your overall electricity consumption, automatically factoring in your solar production. Depending on where you live and which utility serves your home, this is called net metering or solar bank.