When you choose solar installation for your home in Cheshire, CT, your panels harness solar energy that your home consumes through its electrical system. Through an inverter, often on the back of every solar panel on your roof, solar energy from the sun, which is DC energy, is converted into AC energy, which your home uses to power everything from everyday appliances to your entire HVAC system.
This may seem complex, but with F.F. Hitchcock Plumbing, Heating & Cooling electrical experts, you’ll understand how your home will benefit from installing high-quality solar panels.
Choose the Right Solar Panel for Installation
Does it really matter what types of panels you choose for your next solar panel installation? It does! Settling for standard or subpar solar panels could result in less solar energy production over time and may decrease the usefulness and lifespan of your solar energy experience.
Designed to facilitate a continuous flow of electrical current, standard solar panels will often bypass any parts of a panel that become shaded, which impacts its ability to generate electricity. In standard panels, these are called bypass diodes, which, with repeated activation, can wear out over time and result in the unmitigated heating of solar cells. This inadvertently causes hot spots to form, which causes irreversible damage to the cells and panel materials. Additionally, these hot spots are particularly dangerous should any dry brush or debris fall come in contact with the panels.
Maxeon Solar Panels
F.F. Hitchcock Plumbing, Heating & Cooling installs quailty Maxeon solar panels from Sun Power, which uniformly pass electricity through shaded panels and keep operating temperatures low. These solar panels are proven to last, delivering 60% more energy over 25 years in real-world conditions, including shaded areas and high temperatures.
Maxeon solar panels use a factory-integrated microinverter for fast and simple solar panel installation on your home’s roof. What’s more, solar panel installation from F.F. Hitchcock Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is ideal for both commercial and residential applications, and our roofers can expertly inspect your roof for streamlined installation.
- Crack-resistant solar cells
- Simple, fast solar panel installation
- Decades of lasting energy production
- Enhanced performance in high temperatures
- Even electrical production in real-world conditions
- Expert roof inspection and replacement if necessary
We’ll inspect your home and roof to determine how we can best install your new solar panels. With our roofing services, we’ll advise on whether your roof should be repaired or replaced prior to installation to increase solar panel longevity.
Solar Services for Your Home in Cheshire
Selecting the best solar panels for a home is extremely important in reaping any surplus energy they produce. Over time, this could save you money on your utility bill. Any surplus energy solar panels produce will go back to the utility grid, and that energy may return to be consumed by your home at a later time, which is referred to as net metering. Depending on how your utility company describes this, typically, it is rate-for-rate.
For example, in Cheshire and the New England area, homeowners enjoy a bell curve of solar energy production, where the late fall and winter months are darker, leaving homes with solar panels harnessing less solar energy. However, with solar panel installation and high production of solar energy during the summer months, homeowners often benefit from that surplus of solar energy and reap it during the darker fall and winter months, seeing it as a credit on their bill.
With decades of experience helping homeowners and businesses in Cheshire and surrounding areas, F.F. Hitchcock Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is ready to help you with all your solar panel installation questions and concerns. We’re a Tesla Power Wall Certified Installer, an installer of FranklinWH, and a Maxeon Preferred Partner. This allows you to combine several great products and transform your home so that it truly reaps the rewards of solar energy.
Contact F.F. Hitchcock Plumbing, Heating & Cooling to learn more about our expert solar installation in Cheshire!
