You have a log cabin in the Smokies near Asheville NC You do

You have a log cabin in the Smokies, near Asheville, NC. You do not have electric power there, and the power company will not put in the line for you. You could install a diesel or a gas generator, but you are not allowed to use one because of pollution and noise restrictions. You decide to build something that will provide you with enough energy to supply power to one fridge, one TV set, one washer and one dryer, and about 600 W of lighting. You do not have to consider heating (but you may) .Consider reasonable use of these household utilities (make your own, but realistic assumptions about their power consumption and usage) and design a power system that will generate enough electricity for you to live in the cabin comfortably. Use any energy source you want: wind, sun, propane gas, micro-hydro anything you want except power utility line or a generator you could buy from a hardware store. Try to be realistic about your solution

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Based on historical Asheville, NC data, solar panels that are tilted towards the equator at an angle equal to the latitude will produce the maximum solar energy output in Asheville.Asheville has an average monthly Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) of 4.43 kilowatt hours per square meter per day (kWh/m2/day), which is approximately 3% greater than the average monthly Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) of 4.31 kWh/m2/day.Solar installations in Asheville that are always titled at the latitude of Asheville (Average Tilt at Latitude or ATaL) average 5.09 kWh/m2/day.

Hance solar energy is suitable for Asheville area and it is suggesteble for the required task.