You may be wondering how solar panels can function in an area that has severe winters. After all, days or weeks of dark skies, snow flurries or monsoon rains hardly seem compatible with a technology that depends on sunlight for its power.

However, the last 10 years have brought a lot of innovation and progress to solar panel technology. Now, even when it’s snowy, cloudy or rainy, solar panels can easily create electricity.

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Off grid systems will include a set of back-up batteries (similar to a car battery) that are to hold extra power that your solar panels produce during daylight hours. If the battery storage system is properly designed for your locale, it will include the right number of these batteries to store power for the number of overcast days that are typical for where you live.  

If you have a system that is tied into the grid of your local electric utility company, then you won’t need storage batteries. Once the sun goes down or if there are several days of inclement weather blocking the sun, your system will automatically use electricity from your local power company. You’ll still be enjoying the benefit of reduced electric costs because on sunny days your electricity will be generated by your own solar panels.

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Some utility companies may even allow you to sell electricity back to them. This is yet another way solar panels can be cost effective. How this works is that any excess power that your solar panels generate flows back into the grid system and you receive a credit for it on your electric bill.  That way, even if you need to use power from the grid during the night or on cloudy days, any excess electricity that your solar panels were able to generate will still be lowering your overall energy bills.

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