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How Do Solar Panels Generate Electricity for Your Home
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How do solar panels generate electricity for your home? Producing an electric current is the first step in the operation of a solar panel, but the process doesn’t stop there. Here’s how solar panel systems generate usable electricity for your home:
- Photovoltaic cells absorb solar energy and convert it into DC electricity. The solar cells that make up the solar panel do the heavy lifting when it comes to actually generating electricity. Thanks to the photovoltaic effect, your solar panels generate an electric current.
- Solar inverters convert DC electricity from your solar modules into AC electricity used by most home appliances.
- As DC electricity passes through your solar inverter, it’s converted into AC electricity. Inverters can also be equipped with transformers that regulate the voltage of DC and AC currents.
- Solar inverters send the converted AC energy to your home’s electrical panel. From there, electricity is distributed throughout your home to all your outlets, so you have a usable electric current whenever your devices need to be plugged in.
- If you have a grid-connected solar system, electricity can work both with and from the electrical grid, and any excess energy generated by your panels can provide financial benefits.
Solar Energy Systems with MapperX
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