CM241 - Solar Panel Construction: A Comprehensive Home Tutorial

This report details a tutorial on how to construct a solar panel at home, addressing the increasing energy costs in the US and promoting sustainable energy solutions. The tutorial aims to provide a cost-effective alternative to purchasing expensive solar panels, estimating the construction cost to be between $100-$200. Targeted towards a broad audience including homeowners and construction groups, the tutorial outlines eight simple steps using readily available materials from any hardware store. The benefits of following this tutorial include significant cost savings, reduced dependency on energy companies, the creation of sustainable energy, and the potential to sell excess power back to energy companies. This tutorial offers viewers a wide range of benefits in learning how to make a solar panel at home, with the potential to have a huge impact in the US and other parts of the world.

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How to Easily Build a Solar Panel at Home
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How to Easily Build a Solar Panel at Home
Introduction
This proposal mainly focuses on the importance of creating sustainable energy in the US
where in the past decade there has been a significant increase in the cost of energy. Solar energy
is one of the largest found natural resources and which can be effectively be utilized in most
homes today to minimize the increasing cost of energy in the country. The report will, therefore,
focus on teaching people some of the basic steps of coming up with an effective solar panel at a
low cost.
Power Challenge in the US
One of the major issue in the US today is the increase in power cost where rates have
continued to increase by the day making the cost of living in the country almost unbearable. Due
to this, there has been a significant rise in demand for sustainable energy production which can
easily be harvested and utilized at home. Solar energy is one of the most recognized natural
sources found in plenty in the US but one major challenge that has hindered many people from
implementing the system is the cost of this panels and the installation fee. Currently, for an
average size solar panel, the cost is about $15,000 – $29,000, which is widely expensive for
many people to afford this kind price.
Targeted Audience
On the other hand, the US grid system can be considered as majorly poor in terms of the
power supply where there has more power supply interruption which has led to even disruption
of other resources such as water. With this information, I believe the audience of the solar panel
tutorial is almost the entire US society and institutions. The tutorial can be considered very

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friendly where anyone irrespective he or she has technical skills can be able to follow the simple
steps which have been clearly explained and set up a fully working solar panel with just a few
resources. The main specific audience that is expected to mostly view the tutorial includes all
major homesteads in the US and most of the construction groups.
Tutorial Summary and Benefits
The tutorial will cover eight major steps which are also very simple for anyone to follow.
The main materials used can be easily purchased in any hardware store and only human capital.
The tutorial is majorly based on the focus of saving as much cost as possible. For example, for a
simple average solar panel, the estimated cost to be incurred is approximately $100-$200 which
is significantly cheap as compared to the current buying price of the solar panels.
In summary, with the increase in power cost, I believe this tutorial will have a very huge
impact in the US and other parts of the world where viewers will be considered to have a wide
range of benefits in learning “How to Make a Solar Panel at Home”. Through proper
implementation of the tutorial steps, the respective viewers will be able to save a lot of money
which could be incurred in purchasing the solar panels, reduce amount of dependency in the
energy companies, create sustainable energy for the entire community, and with enough number
of solar panels one can be to also sell the excess power to same energy companies.