Everything You Need to Know About Maryland Plug-In Solar

Describe to us what it actually looks like.

Um, obviously, the solar panel doesn't plug directly into the wall.

There's some stuff in between.

So if you go from the solar panels, the wires coming out of the solar panels, what do those wires run into next?

I love that question, and we'll do a little bit of crash course photovoltaics.

Um, my company's name is Photovolta- uh, Flores Photovoltaics, and that's just a fancy word for solar, um, specifically the solar of photons hitting, um, reactive cells-

Mm-hmm

... silicon-based cells that create electricity.

When light hits a solar panel, a s- a PV module, it creates DC, direct current.

And for people who have a little bit of electrical knowledge, our homes do not use DC current.

They use alternating current, usually at 60 hertz and 120 to 240 of, uh, volts.

So those two-

And when, and hertz is just, like, the rate at which it's switching back and forth, right? Where it says alternating, is that the-

The frequency, yep

... frequency.

And then the volts is a measure of power.

Yeah, you can...

Uh, this how I think of it.

Volts is how excited the electrons are, and amperage is how many electrons are moving.

Um-

And then watts, you take amps times volts to get watts.

Correct, and that's your power capacity.

Um-

All right.

So your-