save electricity
in your home - help the environment and cut cost
bill
With a Power
Solar
System, you
become a
power
producer
with the
ability to
sell solar
energy back
to your
local
electric
companies.
If you use wind- or solar-generated electricity at home--and your utility company and state laws allow it--you can sell excess electricity back to the utility company. There are two ways to do this. "Net purchase and sale" means you use two meters, one for outgoing and one for incoming electricity, and then pay retail price for the electricity you use while the utility pays you a lower, wholesale price for the electricity you generate. "Net metering," on the other hand, means your meter will run backwards when you generate more electricity than you use--you get the same price for your electricity that the utility company would charge.
Contact your
utility to
see whether
the company
uses net
purchase and
sale or net
metering. If
the utility
uses net
purchase and
sale, they
will come to
your home to
install an
outgoing
meter that
will measure
the
electricity
you put back
into the
grid. For
net
metering,
you'll just
need to
verify that
your meter
can run
backwards to
account for
the
electricity
you are
sending back
to the grid.
Run your electric generator to
generate part or all of the
power for your home.
Monitor your power generation
and use each month. For the net
purchase and sale method, you
will pay your electric bill each
month, and the utility will
periodically send you payments
at wholesale rates for what you
generate. For the net metering,
you will see a reduced electric
bill as a result of your power
generation, or you could receive
a payment from the utility for
your electricity, at the retail
rate.
1)
Make sure your energy usage
doesn’t exceed the amount that
the solar system was designed
for. If you do exceed the amount
of electricity produced or
saved, you are charged regular
rates for grid electricity.
2) Be proactive about conserving
energy! You can use a Time of
Use Meter to monitor your energy
use and capitalize further on
your investment. Call for more
information on Time of Use
Meters.
3) Know how much solar energy
your system produces on a daily
and monthly basis.
4) Check your utility bill every
month to ensure that you are
credited or reimbursed for
surplus energy produced.
5) Be aware of your electric
company’s net metering policies.
Not all utility companies refund
their customers for power in the
same way. Some companies pay
cash for excess power where
others only offer credits.
Electricity Energy Monitors
(Sailwider-SmartPower's monitor
can be used to monitor home
solar plant)
The basic figures contained
within a monthly or quarterly
electricity bill do not give you
much information as to where
your electricity is going - they
just tell you how much you have
used in total during that period
and how much totally you need to
pay. Therefore it is well worth
considering purchasing an
electricity usage monitor and
using it to see exactly where
all your hard-earned money is
going.
One great way to find out how
much electricity each of your
household appliances and
electronic devices uses is with
a wireless electricity
power/energy monitor, which
shows you in real time exactly
how much money your total home
or office electricity usage is
costing you. These monitors can
help you reduce your electricity
consumption by as much as 20%
simply by showing you what you
are using.
Sailwider-SmartPower is a developer and
manufacturer of electricity power
monitor and controlling system.
Most electricity energy monitors
in the market are uni-directional
(1-way) only, that means you can only
get energy consumption
information from the monitor.
The
bi-directional (2-way)
electricity power monitoring and
control system
from Sailwider-SmartPower makes
the user not only able to
monitor the electricity usage,
but also can easily remote control
the connected electrical
appliances wirelessly, providing great
convenience to electricity
efficiency management.
Our
smart electricity energy monitors with home
solar plant monitoring function belongs to our
uni-directional electricity monitoring system and is developed specially for
households installed with home solar plant, providing a perfect
solution for the home owners to monitor both the home
electricity consumed in total and the energy produced by solar.
Meanwhile, the system displays the balance between the
consumption and production to the family members. This system is
only for monitoring purpose, if you also want the system with
appliances control function, please refer to our
wireless energy control system with home solar monitoring
function.
