Posted on 09/11/2019 12:53:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Agreed. Slowly turning up the heat and we didn’t even notice.
The prices are outrageous even with all the “incentives.” I’m 58 and getting ready to retire to run my husband’s business full time. We live between Rochester and Syracuse. A company out of Buffalo wanted to charge us 70K for a 22kw system.
We are higher users of electric (1745kw hours per month on average).
We could probably do a DIY if so inclined for around less than 18 grand. Husband is an electrician and HVAC guy.
You'd be surprised. Here in Devon in SW England I've just recouped the entire capital cost of my 14-panel roof array over 7 years in feed-in tariff payments from my energy supplier. The tariff is based on estimated 50% of generation, so the other 50% is net benefit. In the summer I get about 24kwh daily, 3500 in the year.
The system is fine as long as you see it as just one element of a diverse domestic energy portfolio, and don't expect it to provide base load.
Even if have Solar power, you still need commercial power for the inverters to work per code. If power grid is down, the only way for solar to operate is complete isolation from the grid, no source for AC synch, so a synthesized signal required for the inverter to generate AC,...or you change your interior distribution system to all DC, like living in an RV. Present designs usually do not include an ATS, but a double throw switch is required to isolate from Comm power during as outage, so linemen don’t get zapped by a separate PV power generator out there on the system.
PV systems make HV Linemen very nervous.
NY is known for overcharging. Cuomo wants us to pay 70 million to replace 5 million of license plates.
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