Making your electricity is possible!

Fai -Da -Te («you do yourself») has the wind in its sails, we all aspire to make a maximum of ourselves. Do it yourself, work, basic foods: why buy products or services when homemade is accessible, with all the advantages it offers: savings, feeling of autonomy, pleasure to produce or even guarantees of products? In addition to preparing our bread or design our greeting cards and if we produced the energy necessary to feed ourselves our domestic devices? Zoom on solutions and means to be implemented to create electricity yourself.

Do your electricity alone in manufacture, why do you do it?

Many reasons can encourage you:

• On the move or on the isolated site, when the connection to the distribution network is complex to implement the boat, the mobile house and the camper, in a garden shed or in an isolated country that produces your electricity alone is the only solution to be powered in energy. This allows you to provide for your basic energy needs: lighting, recharge of multimedia devices, radio and TV …
• Being part of his electricity alone, the manufacturer acquires less chilowattheures from his energy provider: he saves significant savings on the account, especially because prices tend to increase.
• It is also free – at least partially – from the distribution network: for independence and very beneficial autonomy at a financial, but also psychological level.
• Another advantage of the car -production, the electricity manufacturer has total control of its production. In this context, he can opt for the energy resource of his choice: water, electricity or wind: not only knows the origin of his electricity, but also opts for a renewable resource. For a green energy and the benefits it offers to the planet!

And the disadvantages? Depending on the production method chosen, it takes a more or less important financial investment and some time to set up and maintain its installation.

Produce yourself, instructions for use

The process differs according to the chosen production system. In large scheme, it consists of 2 steps.

Draw on natural resources

To create your electricity alone, you must first generate a current. 2 types of resources can be used as an electric generator: motor force and sunlight. Good news, we find these resources in nature in renewable quantity to infinity …

Wind turbine and hydroelectric turbine to use the strength of the engine as a current generator

• The wind turbine draws the strength of the wind to generate an electric current. The more the blades of the wind turbine, the more the wind blows hard, the more electrical wind turbines. Considered not profitable in the current state of technologies and relatively cumbersome in a garden, the home wind turbine is rarely used by individuals in practice.
• The Hydro turbine allows you to create its electricity using the strength of the aquatic current. This hydroelectric energy requires having a stream near his house, rare in practice.

Another driving force to be exploited to create your electricity yourself: your movements! The bike that produces energy when pedaling, the portable battery that deals with when you walk … so many ingenious systems to produce its electricity alone in a proportion after all limited.

Solar Terre Increst: Mono-Slopes roof equipped with 32 photovoltaic panels

Photovoltaic panels to use sunlight as a current generator

Undoubtedly the most successful solution to date, in terms of profitability in particular, the installation of solar panels in the roof allows you to create electricity yourself: free and specific energy for the key!

This solution to create your own electricity offers many advantages compared to the wind turbine or hydro turbine:

• The required equipment is discreet and the space as soon as it is installed on the roof of the house.
• Most individuals are admissible – in the north or south of France.
• Maintenance of photovoltaic panels requires minimal and rare efforts.

Convert the electricity produced to use it at home

Wind turbines, solar panels or hydro turbine: these installations that draw from water, sun and wind generate continuous electric current. However, national devices operate alternating. No problem, a current converter is added to the basic equipment – also inverter – to be able to provide electricity to your home. This accessory is essential to create your electricity alone … and use it!

Do you make your electric installation yourself?

Whatever the autonomous production method chosen to create the electricity alone phot-photoltaic panel, wind or hydro-turbine turbine, the generator must necessarily be connected to the feeding of the house with electricity. To get to the end of your FAI -Da -te approach, it is tempting to create electrical installation yourself, provided that you respect the standards and safe work.

If the strong handyman of his notions in electricity and electrical connection will try to do his electric installation on his own, the layman will have all the interests to face a professional electrician.

Without forgetting that in order to benefit from an investment prize, it is essential to call a certified installer.