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By now you’ve read a lot in recent news about solar panels, or “modules” as they are called within the industry.  You want to slap one down on your roof, ,and tap into some free power, right?  Getting a solar module to produce power is the easy part (more on that in an upcoming article).  [...]

No matter how I slice it, adding solar panels to our house is just plain expensive. Even with the current tax incentives and credits from the utility companies, I ran the numbers and a system will still set us back about $20,000 by the time it’s all said and done. With that in mind, we set out to tackle all the passive solar and energy reduction projects that we could before jumping into active solar. In case you don’t know what the difference is between passive solar and active solar, let’s start with a brief explanation of the two