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Originally Posted by Robbie
Thing here in Vegas is the power company is now building solar grids and charging customers the same jacked up prices for power that they did for traditional power generation.
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It makes sense to me because they need to recover their investment. They can't charge more for it of course without people freaking out, and maybe they aren't allow to charge less. Who knows. I'm just glad its in place for Vegas.
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Originally Posted by mineistaken
As far as I know solar energy is not cheaper to produce for power companies. Usually it is more expensive than traditional methods.
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It used to be more expensive, but now its cheaper.
https://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/04...nds-10-charts/
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Nope my mom bought into this scam back in the 80s during the global cooling scare. Her panels now reside in her garage after a new roof was needed. Cost her an extra $750 to have a crane truck come out and remove the panels. They hadn't worked in decades..
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Solar in the 80's was very, very expensive, and very inefficient too. Dismissing solar today because 30 year old technology sucked isn't smart. You should at least give it another look.
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Rochards house is now pretty much unsellable. I for one wouldn't buy a house with association fees period. Couple that with, as someone else mentioned, a 20 year agreement on outdated technology.. My bet is he will be paying to have them removed and re-installed elsewhere if he ever goes to sell.
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To each their own of course, but I think He's added lots of value to his house. We just bought our house about 2 years ago and this year, new houses are going up with solar in place. Even some new apartment buildings are solar. If I was shopping for a new house today, I would like at houses with solar panels included already.
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Originally Posted by thommy
@ rochard: congrats and thanks for making the world a little bit cleaner !!!
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I second that!
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Originally Posted by woj
you committed to paying $117 x 12 months x 20 years = $28k for it all
and you will generate $300 or so worth of electricity per month? so that means everything will have to work smoothly and without any glitches or problems for 93+ months (almost 8 years) in order for you to come ahead....
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Not sure you get it. Rochard was paying $400+ per month for electricity. Now he's paying $117. Not only that, but this is money he's paying into his house, and not to the electric company, and therefore value to his house. This is on top of the reduced pollution he is creating, and on top off the complete elimination of brownouts or short blackouts.
Look at it another way. Imagine you were buying a house for $500,000 and were going to mortgage it over 20 years. Your monthly payments would be around $2200 a month. If you could add $100 to your monthly payments and get "free" electricity (and be super green at the same time) for as long as you owned the house, wouldn't you take it?
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Originally Posted by Google Expert
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Why are you posting stats that are almost 6 years out of date?
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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Jesus Christ what a bunch of jealous bitter haters WTF!
Great job on the solar panels Rochard
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Originally Posted by baddog
I hope Rochard revisits this thread monthly with updates showing actual savings compared to projected.
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You're about as interested in that as you are of my own stats driving electric vs gasoline.