Solar Roof Shingles: Natural Power for Your Home

The use of solar power for powering your home or business has been gaining in popularity over the years. However, gone are the days of enormous, unsightly panels propped on the roof of your dwelling; welcome the invention of solar roof shingles! With the appearance of conventional shingles, solar roof shingles become a source of electricity for your home and bring protection from the elements all in one.

Here is what you do to generate power from the roof of your house: Install these 12 inch by 86.5 inch shingles on your roof like you would conventional roofing shingles, by nailing them into place on a roof decking over 30 pounds of felt sheeting. Electrical lead wires (#18AWG) extend 12 inches from the underside of each shingle and pass through the roof deck and allow interior roof space connections. Each shingle outputs 17 watts at 12 volts DC. The power of each square foot of your new roof is 5 watts.

Once the shingles are in place, the sun's warmth actually helps to bond the shingles together for maximum durability. The roof is built to last for 25 years. Like conventional shingles, solar roof shingles can be walked on without risking damage to your power source.

Not only are solar power shingles convenient, appealing and good for the environment, but cost effective as well! It saves expense on conventional shingling and you get to power your entire house with them, potentially getting your electricity bill down to nil. Solar roof shingles have been awarded the Popular Science Grand Award; "Best of What's New" (Environmental Technology) and Discover Magazine's "Technical Innovation Award" (best innovation for the environment).

Solar roof shingles are ideal for anyone and everyone who seeks an efficient and innovative power source that uses our largest completely natural resource; the sun. No harm comes to the environment and cuts down on the use of the environmental resources that are already running out.

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