This video demonstrates the simple steps for installing roof shingles with photovoltaic film. These solar shingles are made from metal shingles that are commonly used in Florida and designed to be long lasting and hurricane proof.
These shingles are a prototype and not in development yet but they look like a good idea to me. They are a simple design and it should be easy for someone to make something similar themselves.
They are made from a type of shingles that have been in use for a long time so they are time proven. The metal shingles are combined with the photovoltaic film easily and when finished it just looks like a normal roof. With this design the shingles that have solar material look just like the shingles that don’t so it will all blend together. With many solar roof shingles the parts that are solar will stick out like a sore thumb.
Installing Solarcentury Roof Shingles
The video below shows the process of installing roof shingles by Solarcentury. It demonstrates the shingle installation, and making the electrical connections and hooking up the inverter.
If you are building a new house or replacing a roof it only makes sense to replace it with something that will make electricity instead of letting all that free solar energy that hits your roof every day go to waste.
Installing roof shingles with photovoltaic film may be more expensive than plain shingles but over time it will be well worth it. With state, local and federal tax incentives the cost can be greatly reduced. Plus you have to consider the value of knowing you are doing a good thing by using a source of energy that is clean, renewable that would otherwise be going to waste.
