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Been getting a couple different salesman making outlandish claims knocking on doors trying to sell them for the house . Anyone here taken the plunge and done it ?

Other than being somewhat of an eyesore, I've heard that they are worth it.

What do you do when the sun doesn't shine, Nas Thumberg?

I did the math on this last year, it was something like 10-15yrs before you break even with the cost of the panels. And that is without them breaking. How do they hold up to our winters or hail?

Always heard about tax credits and selling power back to utilities. Friend of mine around Boston does great. Don’t know the numbers but it is up and down as to whether you draw from Com Ed or give back. Likely seasonal.

Down south I saw farms of them where they tracked the sun movement. Obviously not for homes but a ton of free power after paid off.

Unless you are sucking a TON of power, I am not sure this is worth the investment. It certainly would be cool to have though.

Being on a coop for power we get hit pretty hard by electric bills and we pull a lot of kw here. It’ll happen eventually, as soon as I don’t have 10 billion other things to spend money on getting put in.

Been getting a couple different salesman making outlandish claims knocking on doors trying to sell them for the house . Anyone here taken the plunge and done it ?

Always heard about tax credits and selling power back to utilities. Friend of mine around Boston does great. Don’t know the numbers but it is up and down as to whether you draw from Com Ed or give back. Likely seasonal.

Down south I saw farms of them where they tracked the sun movement. Obviously not for homes but a ton of free power after paid off.

They haven't become much more efficient than ten years ago but that are vastly cheaper. The battery banks are really where the gains are made though, so you don't sell as much back to the power company. But batteries are still expensive and don't last long enough to make a lot of cents. At this point, it's probably another 10 years before it all comes as a no brainier.

Wouldn't think you'd use much juice on a farm, figured ya have a LP tank or Nat Gas supply for heat and cooking.

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At one point had a ton of aquariums... plugged in electric usage monitors on those and shut them down.

No natural gas supply on farm and crazy wife went geothermal which is a heck of a cooling system but I’m not crazy about the heat side.

Beyond that,we pump a lot of water to water the cows, the electric motors on the grain bins can really pull the juice and just various other things... It’s not a 24/7 draw but there are days when the transformer is humming. Have a second home site on farm that is vacant and basically only electricity used over there is a deep well, a couple or three (depending on tine if hear) electric fencers and the furnace fan and due to the coop fees the cost per kw is a little bit more than you’d like.

When infrastructure isn’t shared by hundreds or thousands of people per square mile (population density is around 6 per square here) it costs.... but that’s okay... I get capital credits when they come in under budget..yeeeeh me.

At one point had a ton of aquariums... plugged in electric usage monitors on those and shut them down.