If you connect your panels to the grid, you won't be responsible for producing all your own energy. That's not the case if you go off the grid.

Here’s a guide to the equipment necessary to generate and store minimal power for a remote property, from the solar panels to the breaker panel.

Also, residential solar systems often connect to the grid and act as supplemental to municipal power or have the potential to sell power back to utility companies.

Kicking your utility to the curb sounds like a great deal, but it's more difficult than it sounds. Here's what it takes to go off the grid with solar panels.

Businesses generating their own solar power enter into a billing and metering agreement, called a netmetering agreement, with a local power utility when connecting a photovoltaic system to the grid.

A confluence of lower-power appliances and devices using low-voltage external switch-mode supplies, readily available solar panels and electronic modules, and inexpensive high-capacity batteries ...

The terms used to describe the capacity, size, and power of the various components in a solar system can be confusing. Here is what you need to know—in layman’s terms.

Off-grid solar systems use solar batteries to operate fully independent of the power grid, but typically cost more than grid-tied systems.

The r16 consists of a solar-power system on the roof and as well as the connection to an EV. Right now, it only works with EVs that comply with the CHAdeMo protocols for vehicle-to-grid ...

West Penn Power expects to complete the connection work for both projects in late 2023, with the two solar farms expected to be in service and delivering clean energy in early 2024.