WedgeRock
Royal Flush
That's noble of you, and I don't mean that in a snarky way. But most people aren't going to spend $18,000 to break-even after 18 years...after roughly a year, it's saved us $1000, and the total cost of the system (after rebates was ~$18,000)....
We're in it for the environmental impact more than the fiscal......
I listened to a podcast buy a guy here who went solar... He wasn't quite breaking even because he wasn't generating enough power during the day of offset the usage at night... But he was getting closer to zero consumption.It isn't just the financial payback but also the ability to have some independence when it comes to power supply.
One thing that surprised me, though, was that because he was still in the grid (so he could sell daylight power back to the energy company, but also because he didn't have a battery onsite to store power, which was another $10,000), when the utility's power went out, he went dark because if he was still generating power, he would energize the lines the crews were working on.
So he has this expensive solar system on his roof and yet still sits in the dark during a power outage...
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