Getting solar at the house

[meatman]

We only pay ~$8 connection fee per month for electricity since you draw from them during the night.

We had to pay for when the December bill came around because we were using more energy than we produced in Nov/Dec. Then we had to pay for the excess that we used through about March because the panels were covered in snow a lot during the winter. Since then, we've been producing more than we've used every month in the summer. The "zero" on the meter is when they actually connected the system, so it went positive in the wintertime and finally hit zero and is in the negative just recently. Whatever excess we produce this year gets credited toward the December bill. *I think* There were two different ways to set it up with Xcel, and that was to do it the way we're doing it, or to roll the credit's over I believe. I'll have to look into it more to see how it really works with Xcel, but we paid Solar City up front so we don't pay them a monthly fee on top of everything.

[gnihcraes]

Solar City here.

3.5kwh system (ugh)

max produced 21kwh in a day. (that i've seen) i've got a tree in the way too, so i'll trim that sucker up again and should get more out of it.

297kwh this month so far.

Producing about 1/2 of our daily useage. It saves me $25 and I pay $25 to solar city. (i think, gotta look at the Xcel bills again to see)

All is good.

(one half shown)

[rbeau30]

New out of the box. Aren't they shiny? Haven't been turned on yet, waiting for the final inspections.

I am doing the New Program with Solar city where you finance the panels and you get the tax credit now instead of renting them and solar city gets the credit. I REALLY need the credit this year.

[gnihcraes]

looks good. How big of a system is it?

[Irving]

Where has tmleader been?

[Rooskibar03]

What kind of payment you looking at financing it?

New out of the box. Aren't they shiny? Haven't been turned on yet, waiting for the final inspections.

I am doing the New Program with Solar city where you finance the panels and you get the tax credit now instead of renting them and solar city gets the credit. I REALLY need the credit this year.

[rbeau30]

7.650 KW system


The loan is tacked onto the KWh rate.

.127691 per KWh for first year locked in.

I will take my tax credit and give to Solar City ($9000) and the rate will drop to .09216.

[Rooskibar03]

7.650 KW system


The loan is tacked onto the KWh rate.

.127691 per KWh for first year locked in.

I will take my tax credit and give to Solar City ($9000) and the rate will drop to .09216.

so @ the .127691 Id be paying them what I pay electric company but could see a tax advantage. Hmmmm might have to make a call but with all the trees on our property it may not make sense.

[gnihcraes]

If any of you look into solar city, let one of us know so we can give you our name as a referral. $ into our pockets for more toys if you sign up!

[rbeau30]

If any of you look into solar city, let one of us know so we can give you our name as a referral. $ into our pockets for more toys if you sign up!

Yeah this.

I figured I will be paying a little bit less for electricity. However, the advantage is when you get your rebate to turn around and pay down the investment in the system, I then get a big decrease in mt electric cost.

so @ the .127691 Id be paying them what I pay electric company but could see a tax advantage. Hmmmm might have to make a call but with all the trees on our property it may not make sense.

Yeah, when you call them; the design folks share their desktop with you and use a faux-3d google earth thing and basically calculate what you can get out of the system based on where the roof faces and trees in the area, etc. This program I went with they just started a month ago, where you technically are the owner of the system, but because you are financing it "through them" you get the 20 year production guarantee and all that as if you were leasing the system.