What is the maximum amount of solar electricity I can generate for my home?

Of course! Your home’s solar electricity generation capacity depends on factors like the size and efficiency of your solar panel system, as well as local sunlight conditions. Unlike a fixed limit on total kWh production, the amount of excess electricity you can feed back into the grid at once is often restricted by utility regulations. …

Under net-metering, will I be credited for power at the same rate the utility charges me for it?

This all depends on the utility. All utilities have different billing structures. In most cases there is a small difference. One example is that they will charge you HST but will not credit it back if you do not have an HST number which most home owners do not have. For the portion of the …

From a global warming perspective, does it make sense to cut down trees that might shade my solar array? Don’t trees help reduce global warming?

This is a great question, and a complicated one. Trees reduce carbon in the atmosphere by building plant tissue out of it and locking the carbon away. Unfortunately this is only temporary, when the tree dies and is burned or rots, the carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Solar panels reduce carbon in the …