Battery		Maintains the battery at the highest possible state of charge, provides user with required quantity of electricity, and protects battery from deep discharge
Off-Grid		The process that produces electricity from sunlight
Charge Controller		Installed system that is not connected to a utility network
Peak Power		Network of energy transmission lines
Energy Payback		Unit of energy
kWh		Converts direct current into alternating current
Grid		Energy storage device
Direct Current		The smallest complete environmentally protected assembly of interconnected photovoltaic cells.
Photovoltaics		The amount of electric power being consumed at any given moment
Module		Amount of power output a PV module produces at standard test conditions
Inverter		Electric current in which electrons are flowing in one direction only
Load		Time required for any energy producing system or device to produce as much useful energy as was consumed in its manufacture and construction