Not surprising to anyone, utility rates have been increasingly and steadily climbing over the past several years by an estimated 6 percent per year, with an unprecedented 30 percent jump in the past three years alone.  And due to the skyrocketing cost of home heating fuels, along with higher electricity costs, this rise in high price energy does not look to be slowing down anytime soon. 

Solar panel installation can help heat your home in the winter and cool it in the summer; thereby reducing both gas and electric bills by a substantial amount, even on cloudy days when the sun is not directly shining on the solar panels. 

Installing solar panels on the roofs of homes and office buildings can help decrease growing utility bill in addition to saving money on income tax returns. There are tax incentives by both the state and federal governments for those who install solar panels into their homes. The federal government tax credit for solar panel installation increased dramatically in 2009 from years past. A homeowner could receive a federal tax credit of up to 40 percent of net system cost after state rebates are deducted.  This credit is taken directly off the amount of income tax you owe at the end of the year. 

According to the National Appraisal Institute, a homeowner could increase their home’s value by $20 for every one dollar reduction in annual utility bills. This may not seem like a lot by itself but if you calculated over the course of a year or five years, it adds up to be a quite substantial amount.

Individual homeowners are not the only people who are concerned about the environment and are using solar panel installers to install the large solar panels on their rooftops.  Many city and state government buildings are also receiving grants in order to have these large solar panels installed on the city buildings in order to help save money on the utility bills the city may encounter and taxpayers have to pay.  Additionally, many cities and states use solar powered safety signs to help keep traffic flowing and save lives from accidents because it distracted drivers.  Most of these solar powered traffic signs come equipped with LED flashing lights which are generated by the sun’s solar energy.

Life is busy but when people are driving, they need to be driving and not ‘multi-tasking’ because distracted drivers are the number one cause of accidents all across the world.  One way to combat these automobile accidents is to use solar traffic signs to help alert drivers to pay attention to what lies ahead.  Solar powered traffic signs contain LED flashing lights to help draw attention to what the sign is indicating to the driver.

Solar powered traffic signs come in a wide array of styles to fit any type of traffic need.  A city or state could order custom made solar powered traffic signs that fit within their budget and help to save the lives of their workers and citizens.

Solar powered signs use the sun’s power to generate flashing LED lights that surround the words on the sign in order to help drivers notice these signs and do what is indicated on the sign.  The LED flashing lights are usually red, yellow or orange and draw the attention of a driver to the sign so it can not be missed.  Because they use the sun’s solar power, there is no need for dangerous power cords or costly gas for generators to make these signs effective. Solar panel installers are trained professionals and the procedure to install a solar powered traffic sign is fairly straight forward and simple.

Solar powered traffic signs save lives by drawing a driver’s attention to the flashing lights on the sign in addition to saving money by using the sun’s solar energy.  Countless studies have been conducted as to what extent drivers are distracted by cell phone use, eating, talking, adjusting the radio or using a CD player, putting on makeup or reading and even text messaging while driving are all distracting to drivers.  This list does not even include someone who is distracted within their own thoughts from a bad day at work or a fight with their spouse.  Distractions will always be a part of a driver’s daily commute; however the solar powered traffic signs with the LED flashing lights will help bring a driver back to the “here and now” and help them to avoid potential accidents.

Solar powered traffic signs use three or four flashing LED (light emitting diode) lights in order to attract a driver’s attention to a sign so that they will slow down, stop, yield or beware of dangers such as low power lines, railroad crossings or emergency vehicles entering and exiting the roadways.  These LED solar sign lights last much longer than regular light bulbs; therefore replacing them is not an issue and they are powered by the sun’s energy so there is no need to run an electrical cord or extension cord from an electrical outline to the sign.

Solar powered stop signs can have a dramatic impact for motorists and pedestrians near work zones, hospital zones and school zones where drivers are often times distracted and tend to speed without realizing what they are doing or plow through stop signs without seeing them.  Solar powered stop signs placed anywhere pedestrians and motorists coexist can help reduce the number of accidents by helping to alert a driver to what a posted sign is “telling” them.

Solar powered traffic signs that alert drivers to oncoming traffic in school zones have been used in and around many different college locations where there tends to be more pedestrians then cars.  Other school zones have also had much success with solar powered traffic signs and solar powered stop signs.  Often times when a parent is dropping off or picking up their student there are hundreds of children walking around in addition to large buses making distractions inevitable.  With solar powered traffic signs people are more alert to their surroundings and more lives are saved.

A solar powered safety sign near fire engine houses or hospital zones help insure drivers who cannot hear the sirens (perhaps the music is too loud) will see the flashing lights of a stop sign or a bright yellow fire engine sign and heed its warning. 

Large colorful signs posted near hospital zones and school zones are often times not enough to save lives but a solar powered traffic sign with the flashing red or orange LED lights have been proven to save more lives than a traditional sign.