Have you ever driven by a house and saw that the top of the roof is covered with solar panels? Do you have any idea how much this family saves electricity bills; quite a lot. And there's no reason you cannot do this to.

Previously in the last decade the return on investment for installing solar panels was not necessarily a worthy cause. It might cost over $80,000 to outfit a whole house with enough solar panels to run all electric appliances inside such as refrigerators, air-conditioning and hot water heaters. But this is not the case anymore as the costs have come down somewhat.

Today you can install in the average size home for about $40,000 enough solar panels to run everything. And in some parts of our country and some regions with the natural gas prices so very high it now makes sense based on the return on investment for installing solar panels. You see it makes a lot of sense in that you will have no more electricity bills or natural gas bills.

Some of the homes today with solar power can make enough electricity to sell some of electricity back to the grid and therefore even if it is a cloudy week and you do not make that much electricity it is okay because rest of a month did and so electricity you have taken back averages out. Have you looked into the new solar technologies of today? If you have indeed it makes sense honestly consider such an investment in your family