Solar Power and the Stay at Home Parent

January 20, 2022
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If you’re a stay at home Mum or Dad, then putting a solar power system on your roof is a GREAT investment.

Here are the reasons why:

When one or both parents are at home with the children, the power bills definitely go up.

That’s no surprise to you, we would imagine.

Whether you have the TV &/or computer on, you’re cooking with an electric stove &/or oven and are operating appliances around the home (washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, etc.) or even running the air conditioning or heating, your power consumption rate has definitely risen. And having lights on around the house will also increases your costs.

If your bills have gone up enough, you might have tried using less power by switching most of your lights off &/or keeping the TV, computer and aircon use to a minimum, but let’s be honest – that’s not a lot of fun AND kids don’t always understand why you’re doing this and end up getting occasionally agitated with you.

So, What’s The Alternative?

There’s really only one solid, reliable, proven alternative and that is to add a solar power system to your house.

Obviously solar power only works during the day, when the sun is shining, so it’s perfect for at-home parents with bigger power bills.

If you put a 5 kW solar power system (for example) on your roof, it could be generating anywhere from 17.5 – 25 kWh of electricity per day.

If you had to purchase that amount of electricity (17.5 – 25 kWh) from the grid at an (estimated) rate of 24 cents per kWh, that would add anywhere from $126 to $180 per month on your power bill, which adds approximately $1,512 to $2,160 EXTRA to your power bill each year!

With a solar power system, you could offset some of that additional cost and reduce your electric bills thanks to solar.

With the price of solar down about 80% in the last 5 years, it’s also a heck of a lot more affordable now than it’s ever been before. And the savings from using solar would help pay your system off a lot faster than a household with parents not home during the normal working day, because you are able to use more of the power from your solar system.