solar all the way and i build my own , but if you do buy yours the payback time is not as long as you think because they are estimated as if the price of power stays the same through out the life of the panels but we know thats not gonna happen..up.. up..UP!
and the best part is it gives your house a second function!!! A nice light to look at while it burns because the fire dept's don't do shit if your house has paanels on the roof. They can't stop the power output and they don't exactly burn "clean".
But how much up front money does it take to make your meter run backwards, $10K ~ $30K? So they pay for themselves in approx. 12 years, at which point the solar panels are worn out and only producing a fraction of the installation energy.
We have installed more than a megawatt of solar power for commercial and residential customers in the past few years. The payback for these solar systems is around 7-8 years. The output of these systems are warranted for 25 years and the actual life of a solar module is much longer. There are solar PV installations in Japan that still produce power since the early 1970-es. Solar is a great renewable energy source, it saves the environment, creates jobs and puts us on the right track.
This is very misleading. U have power that can fail and cost way more then paying the power company. The savings vs the cost is way off line. For my meeter to just stop it would cost over $40k for the solar system. Savings? A crappy thousand per year. Pay off on a 40k system that could stop my meeter if I cut back would take 40 years to pay off if electricity never went up in 40 years. The systems dont even last 40 years. Rip off.
solar all the way and i build my own , but if you do buy yours the payback time is not as long as you think because they are estimated as if the price of power stays the same through out the life of the panels but we know thats not gonna happen..up.. up..UP!
daillman863 1 day ago
and the best part is it gives your house a second function!!! A nice light to look at while it burns because the fire dept's don't do shit if your house has paanels on the roof. They can't stop the power output and they don't exactly burn "clean".
SmittysTuts 1 month ago
But how much up front money does it take to make your meter run backwards, $10K ~ $30K? So they pay for themselves in approx. 12 years, at which point the solar panels are worn out and only producing a fraction of the installation energy.
grifter116 4 months ago
IT DOESN'T WORK AT NIGHT!
So in temperate zones when you have 12+ hours
of darkness in winter YOU RUN ON BATTERIES,
and those suckers are EXPENSIVE!
GooglFascists 5 months ago
We have installed more than a megawatt of solar power for commercial and residential customers in the past few years. The payback for these solar systems is around 7-8 years. The output of these systems are warranted for 25 years and the actual life of a solar module is much longer. There are solar PV installations in Japan that still produce power since the early 1970-es. Solar is a great renewable energy source, it saves the environment, creates jobs and puts us on the right track.
PVRacking 5 months ago
This is very misleading. U have power that can fail and cost way more then paying the power company. The savings vs the cost is way off line. For my meeter to just stop it would cost over $40k for the solar system. Savings? A crappy thousand per year. Pay off on a 40k system that could stop my meeter if I cut back would take 40 years to pay off if electricity never went up in 40 years. The systems dont even last 40 years. Rip off.
Travos69 5 months ago
what happens during a wind storm and hydro lines fall. do the hydro workers get electricuted because your backfeeding the system
geoduct 1 year ago
@geoduct Solar inverters are designed to stop generating when your electricity goes out.
Rhennessy91 1 year ago
@geoduct They will wear electrical gloves as part of their PPE while working on the lines or cables.
RODALCO2007 11 months ago
@geoduct well.. this system feeds into the entire power grid, so perhaps, if they are generating enough, their neighbors might get a trickle? lol
mindlessk 7 months ago