I could see that my electricity bill was increasing year after year, mostly because my modern day appliances can’t be turned off anymore. I noticed that I had many appliances in the house which are on standby day in and day out. This not only harms the environment, but also my bank account as I am using electricity for nothing. Unable to solve this problem (as this is how appliances are designed and I can’t change this), I started to look into renewable energy to compensate for my unneeded losses and to take some pain from my bank account.
Wind energy is not an option in the area I’m living in and hydroelectricity is not an option as I live in a flat country with almost no rivers, so solar power is the best solution. Then the price of solar systems appears to be horrendous: far more than the system would ever pay for itself in its estimated 20 year lifespan. So I tried to get governmental grants for this project, but grants for those kinds of systems were limited and I missed out. I still wanted a solar system, but I didn’t wanted to pay the high price, so I decided to build the panels myself. Yes, you are reading this correctly, I wanted to build my own solar panel system and I can tell you now that it is possible with materials and parts bought locally in DIY shops and from the Internet. No, I’m not a technical wonder and I don’t have lots of experience working with electricity. I just looked around and taught myself how solar panels are made, how other might have done it, and made out of this a workable plan of how I could do it.
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