Hasty assessment---three reasons a homeowner should buy solar panels for their home

[JHZR2]

Infinity installed Longi Solar:LR6-60PB-300M panels and Enphase IQ7-60-2-US inverters. At the time, Sunrun told me this was an excellent solution and they could not beat the system. That's when I pulled the trigger.
@OVERKILL reviewed my system a couple of years ago.

The warranty is for 20 years. In that time, the panels will probably still produce, right? Just not as well. You can speak to that far better than I.
If they fail, I am still on the grid. In 15 more years, hopefully technology offers solution. By then, I might be pushing up daises but likely will have saved a ton of $$ on electricity.

California leads the country and the world in many many ways. I love it here. Opportunity abounds.

CA is bankrupt and has a massive net exodus. It’s a beautiful state, don’t get me wrong. But the point of poking at CA (hey, I love and live in NJ, I get the poles too) was more related to the ridiculous regulations and whatever that creates the absurd power situation you have there.

A situation that makes solar highly profitable.

No different than my in laws who pay 49c/kwh for entirely different reasons. It’s a no brainer with great roi. But for others it isn’t. And as more issues with it arise. It makes my point for why large, high cost systems aren’t the best solution for most.

 

[UncleDave]

Sure. My father tinkers with these for fun.

But. They aren’t grid tied, so they don’t really offset power bills or offer net metering setups.

If I’m wrong, and there’s. System that someone can plug in and net meter on a smart meter without excessive permitting and utility contracts, I’m all ears.

If it’s essentially an off grid system, then so what?

No way to net meter without "Imperial entanglements" .

 

[JHZR2]

No way to net meter without "Imperial entanglements" .

And that’s my issue.

A 300-900w system wouldn’t even net zero for many. It could just offset, and if the utility didn’t take/credit for it, frankly it might not even matter…

 

[UncleDave]

And that’s my issue.

A 300-900w system wouldn’t even net zero for many. It could just offset, and if the utility didn’t take/credit for it, frankly it might not even matter…

It might keep somebody out of tier 3 and give you an roi, but that's not gonna eliminate any bill, and if you are gonna pay guys to put stuff up on roofs and walls and wire it all up that little production inst worth it.

Unless you are allowed to do it you self - which you are not.

I get that in order to sell to somebody I need a deal in place - and that these deals vary greatly.

The problem I have with this is that I do not actually have a choice to do it on my own.
I cant leave the system even if Im willing and able to be stand alone.

I got the last of the nem 2.0 contracts so my deal is ok, but everyone after me has a radically different deal sometimes forced on them.