September 3, 2010
The Solar Bookshelf
If you are already serious about installing PV, this is an essential reference book, even if you simply want to hire a contractor to install rooftop solar electric on your urban home to offset utility bills.
The familiar black-and-yellow cover promises a quick immersion into the subject of solar electricity, but some readers may want to go deeper.
Michael Boxwell's "Solar Electricity Handbook" on these shores is an interesting glimpse at foggy Britain and such curiosities as its electricity "mains" and high late-evening electricity usage. As a practical guide for harvesting the sun's energy in the States, it is valuable for off-gridders interested in, as the subtitle says, designing and installing a PV system.
Is the sun a practical energy source for you as a homeowner? That’s a question that Rex A. Ewing and Doug Pratt explore in their concise and often clever guidebook “Got Sun? Go Solar.”
