{"id":6762,"date":"2016-04-19T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2016-04-19T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:58:24","slug":"solar-powered-homes-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/solar-powered-homes-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Powered Homes in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really interested on having solar powered house for my parent&#8217;s home.<br \/>\nThis is why I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of research on the different systems that one can have installed.<br \/>\nThere are a few considerations when buying a such a system, here are a few considerations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is power generally available in your place?<\/li>\n<li>Is rotating brownouts the norm in your town?<\/li>\n<li>How important is uninterrupted power supply for your house\/business?<\/li>\n<li>What are your electrical appliances? Can you add up the electricity usage of your electrical appliances?<\/li>\n<li>Can you give a good estimate of your peak power usage?<\/li>\n<li>How long are the rotating brownouts in your town?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhy these questions?<br \/>\nWell If you live in Mindanao or in some remote areas brownouts are the norm. In lots of some places the power lines are generally not insulated and a tree can cause a power interruption in your area that would require electric cooperative employees to fix.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlso a big chuck of the cost of these systems are due to batteries having a much shorter life span than that of the solar panels and electric equipment.<br \/>\nIf you can subtract the cost of batteries because you live in the city where most power interruptions are scheduled, or very short then you probably do not need a battery.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOnce all these questions are answered then this will help you choose between your options.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMostly the choices allow you certain freedoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom from electric bills<\/li>\n<li>Freedom from utilities<\/li>\n<li>Freedom from rotating brownouts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part two will discuss the choices  available.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really interested on having solar powered house for my parent&#8217;s home. This is why I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of research on the different systems that one can have installed. There are a few considerations when buying a such a system, here are a few considerations: Is power generally available in your place? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/solar-powered-homes-in-the-philippines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar Powered Homes in the Philippines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrical-engineering-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}