Why Solar Electricity?
Solar Electricity is used for Residential, Commercial, or Agricultural to offset or create all of your current electric demands for your specific purpose. Be it your home, lake dock, chicken house, farm house, manufacturing facility, or for any number of locations that require electricity, solar can meet your unique requirements.
About Solar Electric (Photovoltaic)
Specialized Solar panels are placed on a rooftop or a ground mounted pole, facing southerly. Rooftop installs are mounted on a racking system that is then anchored to the roof trusses.
Once the mounting rack is placed on the roof, the system can be wired and mounted into place. A pole mount requires a pole to be placed in the ground with a racking system placed on top.
After racking and wiring the system, there is a disconnect switch wired from the system to an inverter. This disconnect allows for the system to be safely worked on for future use, expansion, or servicing.
The next step is to ground and wire the systems to an inverter. This inverter converts the DC (Direct Current) power that the solar panels produce into AC (Alternate Current) power that runs your business or home.
The final step is to wire the inverter to your existing power supply.
The installation time varies depending on the site, but it typically can take between 3 days to a week. The weather will have a dramatic affect on the duration of installation due to the fact that most systems are placed on rooftop.
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Why Solar Hot Water?
 Solar Thermal systems are used for any scenario requiring hot water, primarily because our system works much like your existing hot water systems or boilers. The water that we currently use in our homes and businesses is heated over and over again to maintain the temperature that we need to draw from our existing hot water tanks. Depending on the situation, you can keep your existing tank and allow our system to constantly reheat your water and heat new water that is coming in without using gas, oils, or electricity to do the same thing thus saving you money.
About Solar Hot Water (Thermal)
Solar thermal collectors are typically placed on a rooftop. These collectors or panels, as they are typically referred to, are larger than the average Solar Electric panel. The sizes range depending on the carrier and installer; however, our Solar Thermal Collectors are roughly 8ft tall and 4ft wide.
 The collectors gather the energy produced by the sun in tubes within the collectors. Fluid in the collectors then moves down to the hot water tank to an exchanger. This exchanger allows for the water in the tank to be heated by the fluid that circulates from the collectors. It is important to know that the fluid in the collectors does not mix with the hot water in the tank.
The hot water tank that is attached to the exchanger is used as a hot water battery for your primary or existing hot water heater. Your battery-operated hot water tank then draws in the cold water from your water source and preheats the water prior to being placed in your existing hot water heater.
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