{"id":1507,"date":"2016-09-12T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:33","slug":"going-solar-links-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/going-solar-links-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Solar? Here are some links to get started &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lets put some context on this article as I live in Calgary, however, I live somewhere and so do you and it does matter. For example, I am doing a Grid Tie because that is what the power companies will allow me to do with permits etc. That totally affects the price. I will organize the links in the order that matters to get designing.<\/p>\n<h2>Books you should read<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01EEM488Y\/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o03_?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Solar Electricity Handbook: 2016 Edition: A simple, practical guide to solar energy &#8211; designing and installing solar PV systems<\/a>\u00a0(here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarelectricityhandbook.com\/free-solar-book.html\">free sample of the 1st chapters<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00S8L4IIS\/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o02_?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Top 30 Costly Mistakes Solar Newbies Make: Your Smart Guide to Solar Powered Home and Business<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>First Analysis\u00a0Steps<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Get you energy bills and look at the chart or get the last 12 of them.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarelectricityhandbook.com\/GridTieSolar.aspx\">Do the online assessment for where you live<\/a>. The system will ask for your email and\u00a0\u00a0is not going to spam you- these are the tools that belong to the book you bought or sampled above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>pay\u00a0a master electrician to tell you how big of a system you can build<\/li>\n<li>one company in calgary, you pay $150 (CDN) and they come out and do an assessment. The cost of that is 100% refundable IF YOU GO WITH THEM &#8211; but is $150 that expensive for education of the $5000-$15000 you will be paying?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That is all this article entails for now, I will be adding another article that goes through the handbook&#8217;s steps and literally determines the exact numbers we can get for my set up that I am proposing. I personally am going to ask Civil engineering friend to ensure that the panels I am going to tilt won&#8217;t rip my roof off. Why? Cause I am an electrical\/automation guy and don&#8217;t know what I don&#8217;t know. All that is coming in my future articles. I feel also that there is something missing in the handbook so I will be adding that in as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lets put some context on this article as I live in Calgary, however, I live somewhere and so do you and it does matter. For example, I am doing a Grid Tie because that is what the power companies will allow me to do with permits etc. That totally affects the price. I will organize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Going Solar? 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