Alternative Electricity In Your House

[florentin]

Do any of you use alternative sources for electricity in your house?
I am thinking wind-generated energy or solar energy.

Anybody?

[jamesb]

We have solar energy panels at our ski cottage in the mountain as there is no regular electricity available there.

[manojjonam10]

We are currently installing solar power panels on our roof tops and it is going to help in conserving little amount of money in our electricity bill.

[alcher_27]

With the high cost of energy from the grid, I think everybody is set into thinking of having for his own an alternative source. You could compile a list of these alternatives. Windpower is out of the list since a humble system only generates a few watts even in windy areas. A small-engine generator set-up is likewise uneconomical; it is only good as a standby system. We can pin our hope that research on solar cells would soon make solar power a very economical alternative. Personally, I believe this is the right direction; it would be a matter of time that a household could obtain electrical energy directly from the sun. In the meantime, the grid, which generates electrical energy from fossil fuel, is the most economical source.