Catching sunbeams: How solar panels are turning rooftops into little power plants
Catching sunbeams: How solar panels are turning rooftops into little power plants The time I saw an electric bill with a negative balance, I thought it was an error. My neighbor showed it to me over the fence on a Saturday morning; he was smiling like he had done something. He had not done anything wrong. He had just installed panels on his roof. That was three years ago. Now I am the one who checks the weather forecast and looks at my roof all the time. At some point I stopped thinking that solar panels are something expensive, and I started to see them as what they really are: a simple and practical way to turn a rooftop into a small power plant, a solar panel power plant using solar panels to make electricity. Why ordinary homes are going solar Let me be honest. I did not look into solar because I wanted to save the planet. I looked into it because my electric bill was going up every summer. ...