Imagine you’re building a small solar installation. The naive solution would be grabbing a solar panel from Horror Freight, getting a car battery and AC inverter, and hoping everything works. This is ...

The simplest and easiest way to charge a battery with a solar panel is to connect the panel directly to the battery. Assuming the panel has a diode to prevent energy from flowing through it from the ...

If you’ve held off on picking up a solar system until you found a deal with a bit more power than normal, now’s your chance. Today, we’re tracking a new all-time low on an 800W solar power system that ...

Find the best solar options for your home and budget. A solar charge controller is a device found in a photovoltaic (PV) energy system that controls the amount of power that can be transmitted to an ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...