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Sunlight arrives.
Every morning, the sun radiates an enormous amount of light onto your roof — far more than your house needs.
→The process
From sunbeam to lightbulb, in four steps.
No magic. Just clean physics and a few well-engineered pieces of hardware. Here's everything that happens between the sun coming up and your morning coffee.
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Cells absorb it.
Inside each panel are dozens of solar cells. They catch the photons and knock electrons loose, creating a direct current (DC).
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Inverter converts it.
A small box on your wall converts that DC current into alternating current (AC) — the type your appliances actually use.
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Your home runs.
The clean power flows into your breaker panel and out to your lights, fridge, devices, and AC. Excess can flow back to the grid.
Under the glass
Inside one panel.
Each panel contains many small solar cells. They're the key piece — they catch sunlight and turn it directly into electrical energy.
From there, the electricity is routed straight into your home's circuit breaker, which spreads power to every room in the house.
Compared with the rest
Why solar wins for most people.
Solar
Available almost anywhere
Sunlight reaches nearly every part of the world — cities, suburbs, and remote villages.
Wind
Needs strong, steady wind
Turbines only perform well in regions with constant high winds, which limits where they make sense.
Hydro
Requires massive dams
Hydropower needs huge dams that can take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to build.
Setup
Fast, simple installation
Solar panels go up in days — far quicker than building a dam or a wind farm.