The Solar Cost Guide Your Resource for Solar Cost Information

Welcome To The Solar Cost Guide

Times are a-changin'. Almost everywhere you turn these days, you hear another disconcerting story about the state of the economy, rising oil prices, global warming, you name it. Some folks, like myself, are tired of passively waiting around for somebody else to "fix" the world's energy problems, and we're making the issue a personal one. How can we afford to continue paying such rapidly rising housing and business energy costs? The solution, I believe, is in education. We have to take charge at the local level and learn what we can do to help drive down energy costs in our home and in our community. That's why I started this site,The Solar Cost Guide. Call me idealistic, but I believe the time is now and the technology is right to re-examine how renewable energy sources, such as solar, can be implemented now ... in our own homes, businesses and communities.

Let's Get Started!

A great way to begin is by perusing the Categories on the right side of this site.  The Categories are organized like chapters in a book and will provide you with easy and fast access to the topics that interest you most.  Or, you might just randomly choose topics in the Tags column.  If you can't find what you need, use the Search function below the Tags column; someone may have commented on your question already.  Thanks for visiting!

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As editor of The Solar Cost Guide, I will strive to explore the latest information, trends, technologies, and success stories, as well as informative DIY 'how-to' articles to arm you with all the info you'll need to take charge of your own, personal energy independence, utilizing the oldest and most abundant resource available to our planet--the Sun.

Recently, I came across an article I think you'll enjoy. It recounts the experiences of one man who was sick and tired of shelling out his entire paycheck to cover his energy bills each month. He embarked on a journey to control his own energy consumption by installing a home energy conversion kit. This home-grown installation ended up saving him a ton of money. You can read about his experiences in his article, The Earth 4 Energy Consumer Review: Cheap Solar and Wind Power?

I'd also like to recommend to you an exceptional book which explains the fundamentals of renewable energy and recounts the author's journey towards energy independence. His guide--The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living--explains in simple-to-grasp terms, how we can achieve the same dream and turn the lofty goal of energy independence into a very viable reality. With so many of us now looking for ways to unhook ourselves from the elecricity grid, The Renewable Energy
photo credit: afromusingHandbook focuses completely on off-grid, sustainable living and rural energy independence. Leading expert in small- and mid-scale renewable energy technologies, Author/engineer William H. Kemp, writes from experience: He designed and built his own off-grid home. And while his book includes 'solar' as just part of the overall solution, his energy-retrofitted house uses less than five times the total fossil-fuel energy of the average house in North America. The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living contains hundreds of illustrations, line drawings, photographs and appendices, and is highly-recommended among customers who purchased this book. If you haven't already taken the first step, let this text begin your own journey towards energy independence!

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