Grid Tied Solar Electric systems generate electricity silently and without any moving parts. Sunlight falls on the solar array (blue, on the roof), generating DC electricity. That DC electricity is converted into household 120V AC electricity by the inverter (blue & grey, on the wall). The AC electricity is fed into your electric meter and circuit breaker panel (grey, on the wall). The electricity either goes to your appliances and lights, or to the grid, or some to each. This all happens silently and automatically every day.  

Solar Cell - The building block of the solar industry, each photovoltaic cell is a wafer of crystalline silicon coated with chemicals that cause it to release electrons when struck by light. Read More

Panel - A PV module, or solar panel is a rigid plate of interconnected solar cells. With their ease of installation and efficiencies of more than 15%, they're the obvious choice for residential and most commercial installation. With no moving parts, commercial solar panels are warranted for 25-years, and may continue to produce electricity for more than 40.  Read More

Solar  Array - Solar  Arrays typically contain a large number of solar panels mounted on a flat surface, such as your roof. can make use of They both direct sunlight and the diffuse sunlight reflected from clouds, the ground, and nearby objects.

Inverter - A grid-tie inverter, or a (GTI) is an electrical device that allows solar power users to complement their grid power with solar power. It works by regulating the amount of voltage and current that is received from the direct current solar panels (or other D.C. energy source) and converting this into alternating current. The main difference between an Inverter (electrical) and a grid-tie inverter is that the latter also ensures that the power supplied will be in phase with the grid power. This allows individuals with surplus power (wind, solar, etc) to sell the power back to the utility. This is sometimes called "spinning the meter backwards" as that is what literally happens.

Meter - We've all seen the meter on the side of our home; a lazily spinning dial that tells us we're using electricity, or not. As your solar array generates electricity, you'll see that dial spinning backward, unless you get a nifty digital smart meter, like this. Performance meters tell the utility exactly when you used your power, or generated it, for Time of Use metering.

Time-of-Use metering can help you take advantage of higher daytime rates, allowing you to sell power at a high rate, and buy it back at night at a lower rate. This helps reduce the necessary size of your solar system, while still cutting your bill by the same amount.

Enphase Micro-Inverter - Sun's Free Solar is proud to offer the first revolutionary product the solar industry has seen, the enphase micro-inverter system.  We expect it to turn standard  inverters  into relics of the 20th century. See our products page for complete details.

Grid Tied Solar Electric systems generate electricity silently and without any moving parts. Sunlight falls on the solar array (blue, on the roof), generating DC electricity. That DC electricity is converted into household 120V AC electricity by the inverter (blue & grey, on the wall). The AC electricity is fed into your electric meter and circuit breaker panel (grey, on the wall). The electricity either goes to your appliances and lights, or to the grid, or some to each. This all happens silently and automatically every day.  

Solar Cell - The building block of the solar industry, each photovoltaic cell is a wafer of crystalline silicon coated with chemicals that cause it to release electrons when struck by light. Read More

Panel - A PV module, or solar panel is a rigid plate of interconnected solar cells. With their ease of installation and efficiencies of more than 15%, they're the obvious choice for residential and most commercial installation. With no moving parts, commercial solar panels are warranted for 25-years, and may continue to produce electricity for more than 40.  Read More

Solar  Array - Solar  Arrays typically contain a large number of solar panels mounted on a flat surface, such as your roof. can make use of They both direct sunlight and the diffuse sunlight reflected from clouds, the ground, and nearby objects.

Inverter - A grid-tie inverter, or a (GTI) is an electrical device that allows solar power users to complement their grid power with solar power. It works by regulating the amount of voltage and current that is received from the direct current solar panels (or other D.C. energy source) and converting this into alternating current. The main difference between an Inverter (electrical) and a grid-tie inverter is that the latter also ensures that the power supplied will be in phase with the grid power. This allows individuals with surplus power (wind, solar, etc) to sell the power back to the utility. This is sometimes called "spinning the meter backwards" as that is what literally happens.

Meter - We've all seen the meter on the side of our home; a lazily spinning dial that tells us we're using electricity, or not. As your solar array generates electricity, you'll see that dial spinning backward, unless you get a nifty digital smart meter, like this. Performance meters tell the utility exactly when you used your power, or generated it, for Time of Use metering.

Time-of-Use metering can help you take advantage of higher daytime rates, allowing you to sell power at a high rate, and buy it back at night at a lower rate. This helps reduce the necessary size of your solar system, while still cutting your bill by the same amount.

Enphase Micro-Inverter - Sun's Free Solar is proud to offer the first revolutionary product the solar industry has seen, the enphase micro-inverter system.  We expect it to turn standard  inverters  into relics of the 20th century. See our products page for complete details.