Greetings to Organic Gardening readers After reading about Joel's Ozark mountain solar powered home in the November 1981 Organic Gardening magazine, hundreds of people bought their first solar power systems through the PV Bulk Buy . Now we are helping a new generation of urban and suburban organic gardeners go solar . July 2001 was the 17th anniversary of the world's first solar vehicle. Solar modules convert light energy to electrical energy. The brighter the sun, the more power your system will produce.
Reasons are protection, control and independence.
More people are installing urban and suburban PV systems. The first Bulk Buys in the early 1980s were mostly for small PV arrays less than 200 watts and shipped to rural homes. PV arrays averaged 750 watts. The range was 150 to 4500 watts with several 1600-watt and larger PV arrays. Most people buy the 4 kW inverters and install batteries for backup power.