Electricity from solar power: How does it work?

 No CO₂ emissions: an electricity that's 100% clean, silent and which creates no environmental problems.
90% of the panels may be recycled: they will be melted down so as to separate out the different constituent materials. Silicon cells may be reused to make new solar panels.

 1. Solar panels, made up of photovoltaic cells that are connected together and covered with specially-treated, extra strong glass on their outward-facing side, and a plastic Tedlar back sheet to ensure the roof is kept waterproof. The interconnected roof-mounted panels produce clean, silent, CO₂ emission-free energy that is measured in Wh (Watt-hours).

 2. An inverter, which converts the Direct Current produced by the solar panels into Alternating Current, which can then be fed into the electricity grid.

 3. A meter measuring exported electricity measures how much electricity is being fed into the electricity grid.

 4. There is no change to the standard meter measuring imported electricity, i.e electricity used by the household.

 5. A remote monitoring device sends all the electricity production data recorded by the inverter to Solairedirect each day for monitoring and analysis.