Residential Solar Systems


Determining Your Residential Solar Energy Requirements

The important figure to know, as a residential client, is your daily requirement of energy, in kWh (or ‘units’) per day. This figure essentially determines the size of your solar system requirements. The most basic description of a solar system is to describe the 3 variables:

  1. Inverter Size, in kW (kilowatts) or kVA rating,
  2. Battery Capacity, in kWh (kilowatt hours which is our basic unit of electricity, as bought from the local municipality, or Eskom), and the
  3. PV or Solar Panel Capacity, in kWp (kilowatt Peak Power).