Adapting solar PV panels for your home’s electricity needs can be an attractive and rewarding investment. Solar PV panels can be used to power anything from a light bulb, to your entire home, and that is the problem. It might be difficult to determine how many solar panels you require for your electricity needs, so we are going to try and make it a little easier for you to understand.

Where do I start?

There are a few things you need to decide before you begin thinking about how many panels you need for in your Solar PV Package. Will your system be off or on grid? Will it use a string inverter, microinverter, or hybrid inverter? These choices are not necessarily going to affect how many panels you will need so we will not dive into their differences in this article. Just know that these choices will need to be made before you calculate how many panels your system will need.

What do I need to know to decide how many PV panels my system needs?

When installing a solar PV system, there are four main variables that will dictate a number of solar panels you need. Let’s discuss them.