Especially if you were gareenteed an immidiate decrease in your current bills by having the rent lower then the costs of grid power where you are by 10 or 20 percent? Especially if it was hassle free? Would you do other green upgrades to your house or business if it lead to lower monthly bills like this? Should companies sell there products like this, sort of like car dealerships?
2007-05-10 08:30:20 · 15 answers · asked by Stan S 1 in Environment ➔ Green Living
yes
2007-05-10 08:33:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask the power company to do an energy audit on your house. That's an awful lot of energy (over 1 MWh / month) for someone with no air conditioning. The only other thing that I've seen use that much energy (other than electric heat) is a swimming pool pump. Even with an electric stove and oven, we used less than half that during the summer in California. What state are you in? I'm visiting in Hawaii right now, and the HECO rate in Honolulu seems to be about .20/kWh after all fees are added in. If you're in Hawaii, it's a no-brainer to replace your hot water heater with solar. It pays back in a few years. If your rate is really .24 / kWh, then you can benefit from photovoltaic panels, too, although it will take years to pay back. If you're in Alaska, disregard all that I said above.
2016-05-19 23:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, are you making an offer. Some companies will present the sale this way but you have to find your own financing. A good photovoltaic system keeps you on the grid and you sell your unused power back to the grid for credits you use when your system doesn't keep up. Most photovoltaic have a 6 to 10 year payoff and then you are in profit mode. That doesn't take into account the carbon credits or other positive things you'll be doing for the environment, economy and consciousness of the community.
2007-05-10 08:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have solar panels on my garage that charge 20 RV batteries in a room in my garage that I use for backup power on bad weather days. I have a 25ft radius 3 blade windmill that supplies the daily power to my house and the excess power goes back into the electric grid and the electric company pays me for it. I also had a well dug when building my home, and ran the piping through the slab before poring the concrete that has an instant heater on it. In the winter, it heats the well water to 120 degrees and pumps thru my floors suppling heat for my house. In the summer, it pumps the water thru at apprx 65 degrees cooling my house. The electric company pays me between $300-$500 per month for the electricity I generate. The systems cost me about $10,000 during building cost . During the 2 years since instanaltion, the system has almost paid for itself. After that, I will make about $8000 per year from the system. Hope this helps.
2007-05-10 10:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by Lonnie F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. We considered it but after some discussion, we decided we didn't want someone else to have control over a piece of our property. After personal contact with another spokesman for the company, we felt that if we wanted the panels removed, or had any other request, we might have a problem with the company. Company was relatively new and we didn't know if the company had a good track record. Those would not be our brackets on the roof or our solar panels. It was to be a rental-type agreement and we would be liable for damages ourself (even if it wasn't our fault).
2007-05-10 12:04:20 · answer #5 · answered by Lynda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give me Prefab Solar cell Modules that I link on Roof, link to Main Power Bus unit, switch in for Year round use.
& see my Power drop OR powershare from Big companies & theyre PV roofs etc.
Yes Im game.
Make modular solar cells about 20.00 a Piece.
Erect prefab modules to place on rooftop or side.
Install, link to power source & or wind mill.
Nice.
For Rural use & Suburban use.
ALL Homes, Western US, HI alone.
Wild savings.
Im In.
2007-05-10 13:31:51 · answer #6 · answered by STEPHEN R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you're leasing to own - your question is a little unclear. If you mean leasing to own a house, then I'd certainly want to do as many upgrades as I could to make my home more affordable.
As where to sell the products, I'm not sure I get THAT part at all.
2007-05-10 08:35:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds pretty good and there are currently companies doing that sort of thing now.
some companies will install panels and have you write a contract to buy the power through them at a certain below market rate. others track your energy savings and you pay them a percentage of the energy savings you saved by installing the pannels or other energy saving devices that they installed.
2007-05-10 08:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by c m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if i was living alone but i am not and have to go along with what eveyone else wants in my house.
The car change would be a harder decision because i'd be effecting amerian jobs in the long run.
2007-05-10 11:35:13 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes right now it would cost me 26K-30K to power my house with solar it would be nice if it was cheaper and some more incentives to get it. but still looking at a five year payoff @ approx $ 450 month
2007-05-10 08:39:43 · answer #10 · answered by hazard to your heath 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Create Home Solar Power : http://SolarPower.siopu.com/?wSf
2017-04-01 07:20:30 · answer #11 · answered by Beatriz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋