Introduction#

What is stealth solar?#

Stealth Solar is a concept of installing solar panels to generate your own electricty, the positioning of the panels is meant to be subtle either from an aesthestic point of view or to avoid obvious detection. In some places it might not be legal to install a solar panel so the user maybe looking to avoid being found out. The panel installations may be temporary or permanent and maybe off-grid or linked into the local grid. Stealth solar is similar to guerilla PV though guerilla PV often is associated with only setups that probably aren’t authorised.

Why this site/book?#

This site/book is a collection of concepts and ideas born out of discussions particularly on Mastodon social media, it is meant to be a combination of inspiration, documentation and guidance for people who want to install solar panels in non-traditional locations (anything that isn’t on a roof). Any guidance is just in concepts and you’ll have to do your own research and risk assessments into whether it is possible to do something similar in your area.

About the author#

@smallsolar can be found on Mastodon, they like building small solar powered systems and run the solarcene.community mastodon instance as well as a number of other solar powered services such as squeak, a tiny community webserver.