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4 Signs Your Home Is Ready For A Solar Panel System

What are the signs your home is ready for a solar panel system?

You own the land or house
You have a rooftop that can support a solar panel system
Your electric bills keep increasing
You have more sunlight than shade in your area

Almost every household has solar panel setups nowadays. It’s clear that more and more are realizing the advantages of going solar. First of all, solar is clean – meaning it helps in protecting the environment. Second, solar is renewable and sustainable. Third, solar makes attaining the Zero Bill possible. At Solaric, we believe that solar energy can benefit anyone, but that doesn’t mean every roof is ready for solar panel installation services. If you’re wondering if your home is ready to go solar, we’ve laid it out for you. Here are the signs your home ready for a solar panel system.

You own the land or house

It can be significantly harder to install solar panels on a roof that doesn’t officially belong to you. If you own your house or otherwise have permission from its owner to make structural changes, this is alright. But if you live in a condominium, for example, you’ll likely have to discuss the possibility of solar panel installation with the owner of the condo.

You have a rooftop that can support a solar panel system

The distributed weight of one solar panel is about 20kg. So, one of the telltale signs your home is ready for a solar panel system is if it has a rooftop that can support the weight of the panels. This can be assessed by structural experts.

Roofs have to be durable to support a solar panel system. After all, they’re exposed to elements all day, every day. However, solar panel systems usually last for 20 to 25 years. Thus, it would also be best to ensure your roof will not require repair or replacement before the solar panels are dismantled or reinstalled.

If your roof is any older than 5 years old, it is best to have it assessed for structural damages before you jump right into panel installation. If your roof is either new or newly repaired, it would also be good to match its current lifespan with that of your solar panels.

If you own a home with a rooftop, then why not benefit from reduced electric bills and increased home value by installing a solar panel system?

Your electric bills keep increasing

Electric bills are a dreaded monthly expense. Why? It’s simple. Electricity prices are immensely volatile. If you want to avoid volatility and reduce your monthly electric bills, then that’s a sign your home is ready for a solar panel system. You deserve a #ZeroBill too.

You have more sunlight than shade in your area

To make the most of solar harvest, you want the most sun you can possibly get. You won’t generate a lot of energy if your roof is in the shade. Ensure your roof is unobstructed by surrounding trees. It would be best to trim or prune them to ensure an optimal solar harvest.

A good way to check this as well is by utilizing solar compatibility checkers online, which assess your home via a bird’s-eye view from satellite imaging. Otherwise, you can also have your solar panel installation experts discuss the matter with you, and see if the sunlight in your area is conducive to generating enough energy to power your house.

Key Takeaway

We’ve discussed 5 conditions and signs your home is ready for a solar panel system. If you check all boxes on this list, you’re more than adequately prepared to have panels installed. If not, you might want to take them into consideration before you take a step further into turning on the sun.

You can confirm some of these yourself—the ownership of the property, for example, and the available sunlight in your area—while the rest can be quickly assessed and confirmed by a panel installation expert.

If you’re not sure where to find a reliable and trustworthy solar panel installer, don’t worry! Our team of solar experts would be more than happy to help. Contact us today for any inquiries.

Turning on the sun

At Solaric, we appeal to Filipino sensibilities of approachability, service, and value. Before we give a quotation, we learn how you use energy. We determine the best ways to maximize your return on a hard-earned investment. We present different strategies to ensure that you achieve your solar goals. We want to ensure reduced expenses and increased savings so that you make that one-time-wise business and environmental investment. We always do our best to deliver fast, efficient, and thorough customer service. We are in the business of not just selling solar panels – but also enabling solar-powered lifestyles. With this, we want to provide endless satisfaction by delivering Solaric Service Satisfaction, ranging from permanent reduction of electric bills to the ultimate ZERO bills.

Solaric is the leader in rooftop solar

Solaric has established its name across the renewable industry as a proven and reputable rooftop solar leader. Backed by decades of experience, Solaric has installed more than 50% of residential rooftop solar in the Philippines and has delivered significant cost reductions in electricity expenses, as well as milestone contributions to a cleaner, greener, and renewable future. We want every Filipino to enjoy the benefits of clean and renewable power. Welcome to the new generation of solar and turning on the sun.

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Contact the solar experts

Ready to expand your solar energy system? Or do you simply want to start your #renewable journey today?

Give us a call at 75040092 or 09178603141 or 09083775577, email, or visit www.solaric.com.ph. We will gladly explain to you how the system works, or schedule a survey so we can give you options for your new home or existing homes or businesses.

At Solaric, we Turn on the Sun.

BEAT THE HEAT WITH SOLARIC!

With a lot of us staying at home, there is no escape on the intense summer heat we are currently experiencing. Who wouldn’t want to enjoy guilt-free AC while working at home, or simply chilling and binge watching your favorite shows on Netflix? Thanks to Solaric, you can now finally enjoy unli-AC – and no more tipid! Beat the heat with Solaric!

Unli-AC made possible by Solaric

For as low as Php 105,000, you can already avail the 1.56kWp grid tie system package that can easily cover your usual household appliances and an air conditioning unit up to 1.5hp during daytime. The greater the total horsepower of all your air-conditioning units, the larger the solar energy system needed to offset your daytime use. For example, a house running a total of 4hp aircon will need a 5.4kWp grid tie system that costs at around Php268,000 for a typical GI sheet roof in Metro Manila.

Turn on the AC without any hesitation

It’s time to say goodbye to the traditional “tiis-tiis na lang muna” because with a Solaric grid tie system, your household will use solar as the “first priority” power during daytime and any surplus power can be exported and sold to the grid through the “net metering program” which can further offset your weekend and night time consumption. No need to feel guilty anymore when you use your aircon because your grid tie solar will be there to help you out for the next 25 years and guaranteed return on investment in just 4 to 5 years. You can now always welcome summer heat in the most chillax and comfortable way with guilt free and unli-AC, because of Solaric! Beat the heat with Solaric now!

Turning on the sun

At Solaric, we appeal to Filipino sensibilities of approachability, service and value. Before we give a quotation, we learn how you use energy. We determine the best ways to maximize your return on a hard-earned investment. We present different strategies to ensure that you achieve your solar goals. We want to ensure reduced expenses and increased savings so that you make that one-time wise business and environmental investment. We always do our best to deliver fast, efficient, and thorough customer service. We are in the business of not just selling solar panels – but also enabling solar-powered lifestyles. With this, we want to provide endless satisfaction by delivering Solaric Service Satisfaction, ranging from permanent reduction of electric bills to the ultimate ZERO bill.

Solaric is the leader in rooftop solar

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Contact the solar experts

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If you also want to #TurnOnTheSun then give us a call at 75040092 or 09178603141 or 09083775577, email info@solaric.com.ph or visit www.solaric.com.ph

We will gladly explain to you how the system works, or schedule a survey so we can give you options for your new home or existing homes or businesses.

At Solaric, we Turn on the Sun.

How to Maximize Your Solar Harvest

How can you maximize your solar harvest?

Face your solar panels towards the right direction
Schedule your appliance usage between 10 am to 3 pm
Remove any obstructions

With the help of the solar systems from the Philippines, homes are provided with electrical energy through a renewable and environment-friendly resource.

If two sets of the exact same model of solar panels were to be placed in two different regions of the country, you might wonder whether the solar homes will be able to produce the same amount of solar energy.

The answer is ‘No.’

For example, solar panels installed in the NCR (National Capital Region) will not have similar solar harvest compared to those that are in the Northern Luzon area. In fact, the chance that they generate the same amount of electrical energy is relatively low, even when they were measured at the same time.

The reason for this is because there are many factors that could overall affect your panels’ solar harvest. Some of which are:

The angle of your solar panel
The direction where the solar panel is facing
The sun’s availability
Shadows that could obstruct the harvest of your solar panels

Luckily, there are some ways for you to consider in order to maximize your solar harvest.

Face Your Solar Systems Towards the Right Direction

Since the Philippines is above the Equator, then the array orientation (commonly regarded as the direction which the solar panels face) of the areas in the northern hemisphere of the country must be facing the south direction. On the other hand, regions in the southernmost hemisphere should be facing the north direction since it is the region that is nearest to the Earth’s Equator.

But you don’t have to remember all this; you could just instruct your installers to follow your roof’s structure. The reason for this is because most houses in the Philippines already have their roofs built to face the east and the west—both of which get a significant amount of sunlight.

Schedule Your Appliance Usage Between 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.

One technique that veteran solar homeowners do to maximize the energy provided by the panels is by only using most of their appliances from mid-morning until early-afternoon.

Specifically, 10 am until around 3 pm is the ideal time period to utilize your various electrical appliances.

As the sun is slowly rising above the Philippines, the sunlight that it emits gets stronger. Such condition is highly ideal for consumption.

Do take caution and keep track of the power capacity of your solar panels because overloading it can cause damage to its system. As much as possible, only use the electrical appliances one at a time.

Remove Obstructions

It is highly common for solar panels to be covered in dust, dirt, leaves, and even the dreaded bird droppings.

For most solar system owners, cleaning the panels may seem like a chore.

However, these obstructions could cause the panels to function inefficiently due to the shade it creates, which blocks the path of sunlight.

Do keep in mind that every inch of the panel absorbs sunlight, and is therefore essential for a solar panel to function.

Additionally, you might want to be on the look-out for nearby tall structures that may not create shadows on your panels during summer months, but could definitely be blocking the sunlight come the latter months.

Key Takeaway

And that’s it!

Those are the various ways on how your solar panels can function efficiently.

Make sure to follow these tips so that you can maximize the capacity of your solar panels and get the most out of your eco-friendly investment.

How Coal Tax will Affect the Cost of Power in the Philippines

A friend came to me saying that the coal tax is going to increase the cost of power in the Philippines, I said for cheaper energy its better we kick the coal habit and take a look at the pro oligarch laws that limit RE. There are 450 government agency signatures to put up a solar plant and 3 years permitting for solar farms and for home owners and business owners; arbitrary limitation of how many solar panels or how large of a solar system a Philippine factory or a school can put on their roof and utility compliance hurdles from local and national government for a home setup.

We are after lower cost of energy; it’s the prime reason why people hire us to install solar panels. Half to total electric cost reduction is our goal and some of our clients no longer have an electric bill.

Saying No to coal however is not easy. For years the Philippines was addicted to “cheap power” from coal generation and little after thought was given on burning millions of tons of coal with no end. In 2008, about 24% of the energy needs came from coal plants and we are now edging at 50% coal power. This addiction has caused massive poisoning of our lands, air, and even ground water for host communities, not to mention Global warming contribution.

While other forms of polluting fuels are taxed by the government, Diesel and Gasoline which is mainly paid by working class Filipinos at six pesos per liter, Coal the million ton dinosaur was only taxed a mere ten centavos per kilo at a fixed rate set in 1977 benefiting the privileged few who own a coal plant or mine.

Now the Philippine Senate voted to tax it to a more defensible P300 per ton by 2020. Why we hate coal so much, there is no man made structure that is more efficient in polluting than a colossal coal power plant.

While other countries have found out that burning coal will spell ruin to their citizens’ health, the Philippines Energy plan is to use more coal generation like an unrepentant drug addict with 30 more coal plants planned in the near future.

With the 80% drop in solar panel prices the past 5 years, Coal is no longer the “cheapest” form of energy and they may be stranded assets before they even operate.

Coal generation like all fossil fuel plants has pass through cost provisions that guarantee profits for coal plant owners that Juan De La Cruz would either pay through pocket book or medical bills for affected communities.

So next year, yes power rates are going to go up. Perhaps the wise men of energy policy can just give renewables a chance by removing red tape roadblocks as increasing energy supply decreases prices.

Nonetheless, we realize that many of us are not sheep. Solaric is about empowering people to say No to coal and give economically viable options, solar on rooftops that produce power less than P2 a kWh.

If you want to save more energy with less money or simply a fan of clean environment, put a solar system on your roof. We give you a choice of paying for an electric bill or owning your own mini solar power plant.

For more information, go to this page. You may also email us through info@solaric.com.ph or call us at 5040092 or 09178603141 (Globe).

The Advantages of Solar Panel Priced in the Philippines in This Age

We are getting a lot of calls lately from people we surveyed the past few months; they say that they want solar NOW and Solaric big time packages, as the electric bill was not kind to them this summer. The hot weather causes increased demand and the lack of supply is driving their electric rates through the roof, except if you got Solaric’s solar panels priced in the Philippines on your roof.

People tend to react when the crisis is on our feet; we were having some talks with the Government about solar many moons back regarding the Philippines power supply, back then, the technology and its potential was not fully understood by politicians and energy specialists. Grid tie and Net Metering were unheard of and unfamiliar topics with the LGU (local government units) and local power utilities. That was back in 2013.

“Solar couldn’t be cheaper than grid” exclaimed one; “how about if it’s raining would the lights go off,” said the other, however, we knew that solar worked in countries like Germany and Japan, where it’s not particularly sunny, and the output was so potent that they decided to mothball their ageing nuclear plants because the supply was now augmented.

Things are different now and technological barriers and cost efficiencies that favored burning coal is now becoming obsolete or downright irresponsible with climate change.

At Solaric, we are pioneering bill reducing solar technologies and conduct open source solar seminars on how to engineer projects. Our focus is providing the consumer their own personal power plant on their roof, so they can minimize their own power bill.

You may ask, how effective is solar—we routinely half electric bills as this is what Government policy supports with Net Metering and current buyback rates. Install enough solar to cover daytime loads with any excess purchased by the utility (at a discounted rate).

Occasionally, we have very green minded people who think beyond the 5-year ROI (return on investment) and put in so much solar power that the bill reads P0.00.

So to the pundits out there saying “paano kung walang hanging, walang araw,” our retort is: “Paano kung walang bill, Paano kung walang polyusion! ” Now, my friend, is the time for change and the time to say goodbye to the status quo.

Investing in solar is beyond saving a few pesos; it’s a lifestyle of saying “who’s the boss?” and caring for the environment.

Want to learn more? Go to this page or call us at 5040092.

For best quotes, we need to know what your monthly bill is like and what appliances you normally use during daytime hours.

The Advantage of Going Green Using Solar Panels Priced in the Philippines

Does it make sense to Go Solar these days?

Absolutely! We live in a very sunny and tropical country, perhaps one of the most beautiful of them all, Sunny Philippines. Unfortunately, we are also one of the nations most affected in climate change, and end up paying for one of the highest power rates in Asia.

After powering relief centers and schools in Tacloban right after Yolanda, we take climate change very seriously and our goal is to make our country more environmentally responsible than ever.

Powering a nation needs many sources of energy, given that Nuclear power may be a bit too risky for a geologically active country with multitudes of volcanoes and earthquake faults. With the rest of the world closing down coal plants because of pollution issues, we have to find other sources of power, and the answer already falling on our roofs.

The solar panel equivalent of Bataan Nuclear Plant is like giving every Pinoy a solar panel priced in the Philippines less than a size of a cartolina.

Is this a pipe dream? Perhaps no more as Germany and Japan gave solid subsidies so that their citizenry can install and are rewarded, when they put their own solar rooftops in terms of tax breaks and favorable Net metering prices. They, in turn, shut down dozens of nuclear plants due to increased supply of renewables.

As a home owner, the only practical energy resource is to harness sun energy that falls on our roof and convert it to electrical energy using our solar panel system builds.

Our main strategy is to put enough solar to cover daytime hour consumption as that is the easiest to power without using batteries or selling excess power back to the utility at a discount. However, there are some customers who have ZEROED their entire electric bills by using LOTS of solar panels on the roof and essentially became a mini solar farm in their neighborhood.

Solar worked for countries like Japan, Germany, and US—they are not exactly sunny countries with lots of solar energy. But in the Philippines, it works like magic; even without a single centavo in Government subsidies or tax relief support.

Solar rooftop makes sense because of the abundant sunshine that falls to our roof and low labor rates to install solar panels priced in the Philippines. Just using less coal power plant power sourced makes financial sense with a bankable solid return. Returns of less than 5 years are common to solar builds using grid tie technology and capitalizing on existing legal framework of net metering to sell back excess solar power to the grid in order to offset night time consumption. For a product with a service life of at least 25 years, this is outstanding.

Every day, we energize a rooftop project either directly from our own hands or from one of the more than a thousand installer and DIY builders we have trained in the past three years. A single solar panel has the carbon offset of planting 160 trees, and we planted (installed) thousands and thousands of solar panels. A few hundred houses and industrial plants later, we probably killed the feasibility study of another coal plant and gave notice that going green for both the wallet and the environment makes sense and a financially sustainable endeavour.

DIY packages at less than the cost of a well-endowed smartphone makes going green a no nonsense solution on practicality and social responsibility. Air condition units run capable builds can range from P100k to P140k.

So, if you hate paying more than you should for power, want guilt-free air con, or simply do NOT want to pay for power anymore, call Solaric at 5040092. You could also visit this page for more info.