So I'm retired now, and I decided it's time for you to go solar. What does one thing have to do with the other, well, I wish I'd something more noble to state but really I only want to spend less on my electricity bill, I do want to add value to my home, and I have enough time on my hands now to truly obtain it get it done sunpower solar panels. Fortunately in life I have discovered how to keep a posture where I could be a picky by what I want and usually obtain it (usually). In regards to installing solar panels I'd no idea what I was getting myself into, so I'd to buckle down and do some research and pray that would look for a solar company that might meet each of my demands. I wanted the top technology installed on my house, I wanted it to be produced by a heavy pocketed reputable company in the U.S.A, and I wanted a longterm warranty.

Originally from New York, I relocated to Tucson about 12 years back to flee the cold weather. People complain, we get an annually average 300 plus sunny days here, but irrespective of how hot it gets, I'd take each and everyone of these over one bone chilling New York day. Not forgetting that instead I sold a shoebox sized condo and had more than enough money to buy my 24,000 square foot 4 bedroom house is situated in a peaceful suburban neighborhood. There are a lot of old people like me that live around here, I meet each week with several ladies at a nearby club house and play cards. Janet, one of the gals, has solar panels on her behalf house. She said her electricity bill for the whole year was $16.80. I wasn't certain if I believed her, but she sparked my interest, so I decided to accomplish some research.

I used Google to locate information online about solar manufactures in the U.S., Kyocera, BP Solar, Evergreen Solar, Sunwize, and Solar World are a number of the  companies that claim to be U.S. companies, however not them all are very American, and most of them don't manufacture their parts in the U.S. they assemble them here. Evergreen was the sole actual American owned company. They manufacture each of their parts and the whole panel in the U.S.  - but after making $84.5 million in the second quarter of 2010, they're creating shop in China to be able to make more profits. (I wonder just how much additional money they need to make to be able to keep creating green jobs in the U.S. and stop giving jobs to individuals who are forced to work in miserable conditions for peanuts).

The last company I called was Solar World. I spoke with an extremely bright and pleasant man named Pete DeNapoli for over 30 minutes. Pete has worked with solar world for over 25 years and he gave me the complete history of Solar technology, an upgrade on the present state of the solar economy, and he said additional information about his product than I could ever remember in one single sitting. I actually do remember Solar World has been making solar technology in the U.S. for 33 years and they grow their materials and manufacture the whole solar panel right in the U.S.. Solar World boast about their 25 year linear warranty, Pete claims is the better in the market simply because they guarantee that the actual power of a brand new module cannot deviate from the specified rated power by a lot more than 3% during the first year; and afterward, the power won't decrease by a lot more than 0.7 percent of the rated power per year. So at year 10, capacity is guaranteed to be at the least 90% of the nameplate rather than the standard guarantee of 80% (I took notes during our talk). According to an unbiased test conducted by the German company Photo International Module Test, Evergreen, Kyocera, BP Solar, and Solar World were compared for quality in a multi-year energy output test, and Solar World won. Although I was leaning towards Solar World I still had one concern, every company I researched claimed to truly have the best technology, and I knew that one of them had to be better than the other.

I decided to go to my trusty source for all things true and factual, Wikipedia to discover once and for several who the most effective solar company is. "The current market leader in solar panel efficiency (measured by energy conversion ratio) isSunPower aSan Jose (California) based company. Sunpower's cells have a conversion ratio of 24.2%, well above industry average of 12-18%."  The sole other solar panels which are more effective are not yet manufactured for residential use.

I was curious; why didn't the third party websites I'd reviewed for information regarding competing solar companies mention SunPower? Naturally I'd to investigate further. Come to discover, SunPower is dominating the solar technology world because they have a superior technology and their design is patented, which will keep the others from to be able to contend with them. Their panels are as much as 50% more efficient. It made sense that the solar industry would shy from promoting SunPower because SunPower has an upper hand on all of those other companies to date. SunPower an American owned solar manufacturer with a 25 year warranty, deep pockets, and superior technology still had one down side; it's higher priced than Solar World.

Oh how I enjoy to save lots of a buck! I hate to harp on my age, but saving a buck is one of the last joys that I have left. On the other hand, the superior technology factor was a real selling point too because my daughter will inherit my home and I do want to ensure that any addition I purchase will add long-lasting value. Now's decision time for me. Both Solar World and SunPower offered me almost everything that I want, so I set up a ending up in their installers. I may have them walk me through their procedures and then I will choose a company to opt for, because after all of the research sometimes it just comes down seriously to looking them in the eye and going with your gut.