Solar power systems are more efficient than grid electricity

Electricity production: the history

Creating grid electricity today is a complex and inefficient process requiring many inputs. It involves manufacturing of heavy equipment, mining of megatons of fossil fuels, shipment of those fuels, and finally the building of large power stations to burn fuel to boil huge volumes of water to drive enormous turbines to generate electricity. After all that, the electricity is transported across thousands of miles of inefficient steel cabling to your home, which alone loses about 10% of the energy as heat. You pay your utility for that electricity and all the losses incurred along the way. Sungevity believes that this process to make power includes too many wasteful steps.

The future of electricity production: solar

Innovation has led to the creation of the semiconductor solar cell. Generating your own power with solar - directly where you need it - represents a huge leap in efficiency. With solar, there's no fuel to dig out of the ground and transport across the country, no mechanics and noise, no moving parts, no big power stations and long-distance transmission. Solar energy is local, clean, and super-efficient.

Read about the technology in the section Solar electricity for homes.

Sungevity’s mission is to give you efficient and affordable access to the power of the sun. We re-engineered the process of getting solar, removing costly engineering visits to your house by designing a solar system for your roof remotely (see Why Sungevity).

Learn all about the other benefits of going solar. When you're ready, enter your address or call us at 877.257.8648 and let us efficiently determine the solar potential of your home.