Getting solar at the house

[n8tive97]

Neighbor just had it done. My electric bill is $200 a month on average, I may look into this. Now if I can do something about this freaking outrageous water bill here in Westminster! I have a corner lot in a cul de sac with a large back yard, Tired of paying this to keep the grass somewhat green!

[tmleadr03]

Neighbor just had it done. My electric bill is $200 a month on average, I may look into this. Now if I can do something about this freaking outrageous water bill here in Westminster! I have a corner lot in a cul de sac with a large back yard, Tired of paying this to keep the grass somewhat green!

Try Aurora. When I moved into the house I tried watering for a month. My water bill that month was over 200 bucks and the grass was still yellow. I stopped watering and haven't done it since. My backyard is dead and the front still looks exactly the same. My water bill is just under 100 a month. Extra 130 a month just to have yellow grass? Screw that.

[TRnCO]

$200. a month electric, Holy crapola. I've never had a electric bill over $100. In the summer it runs between $50. and $60. If I had a $200. electric bill, I might look into solar, or find some way to get my bill done some how..

[meatman]

We had our Solar City system installed back in April. Our meters didn't get put in until two weeks ago. Since then, we've been averaging over 30kWh/day and our meter as of yesterday was somewhere in the -36 kWh range and keeps on going down as the sun shines! We went with the most money down program and we should break even on that in 10 years, possibly less time at the rate we're producing.

[al_g]

We really lucked out buying our house earlier this year. The couple had Solar City put a 7.1 kilo watt system on two years ago and pre-paid the 20 year lease. Warrant and contract transferred to us as part of buying the house and we have to send no money to Solar City, our last electric bill was just under $8.

Talking to Solar City on the phone and email prior to buying the house, I found them very easy to deal with.

[tmleadr03]

We really lucked out buying our house earlier this year. The couple had Solar City put a 7.1 kilo watt system on two years ago and pre-paid the 20 year lease. Warrant and contract transferred to us as part of buying the house and we have to send no money to Solar City, our last electric bill was just under $8.

Talking to Solar City on the phone and email prior to buying the house, I found them very easy to deal with.

Damn, I thought my system was big. How much was that electric bill before the solar?

[al_g]

Damn, I thought my system was big. How much was that electric bill before the solar?

I remember asking the previous owners of the house, but don't recall. He used to have something like a half dozen salt water tanks and said that uses a lot of power. So the system was sized for that load.

[meatman]

Damn, I thought my system was big. How much was that electric bill before the solar?

Ours is 9.6kW. We averaged about $80/month or 750 kwh usage for what they based their calculation on. We would've been closer to $75/700kwh, but my wife left the xmas lights on 24/7 during the month of Dec, so our Jan bill was $135/1340kwh which bumped it up. Solar City said Xcel would approve a system that would provide up to 115% of average usage.

[newracer]

I am going to look into this once I move into my new place.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

When I get a house I'm going to look into solar. granted when I get a house the whole thing will probably be standard anyway.