Solar Panel Cleaning

Solar panels are built to create electricity to power your home or business and unfortunately don’t have a self-cleaning and maintenance free ability.

Many people believe that rainfall provides adequate cleaning of solar panels. This is unfortunately not so as rainwater will only provide a limited amount of cleaning.

To illustrate this, consider what happens to your car’s windshield if you haven’t cleaned it for 6 months. And the morning after it has rained, doesn't your windshield seem dirtier than before, like the dust and dirt was just moved around?

When we use our windshield wipers, we clean the center of the screen, but where the wipers do not reach, there is a nasty film of dirt.

Your solar panels are in the same condition as the edge of the windshield where the wipers can’t reach, and likely even worse, since the angle of most solar panels is less than that of your car's windshield. Also, the minimal loose dust that gets moved around by the rain will lead to dust accumulating in the lower cells of each solar panel, which can cause significant loss in performance,

Besides the aesthetic point of view, solar panels should be cleaned at least once a year to keep them functioning at optimum level and to ensure their longevity.

How would you know when it’s time to have them cleaned? When your panels are matte rather than shiny.

You will benefit from clean panels as you will immediately see an increase in their performance.

At Home Genie we focus on the cleaning of residential solar panels.

Every roof has a different pitch and height which affects the ease or difficulty in cleaning them.  Pricing is therefore done accordingly.