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drsportster

drsportster

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1 is anyone in Florida getting any payback from overproducing more than they use from the power company ? 2 Are these panels owned or leased ?3 Can you just buy your own inverter plus panels and install yourself ? 4 Is it even worth doing ?
 
Solar power as an energy source has its place in the world. Planning to make money by selling energy to a local power company is NOT a valid reason to leap into a solar power system.

There are lots of reasons why a Yesterday’s Tractor guy would set up a solar power system.
 
drsportster said:
1 is anyone in Florida getting any payback from overproducing more than they use from the power company ? 2 Are these panels owned or leased ?3 Can you just buy your own inverter plus panels and install yourself ? 4 Is it even worth doing ?
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Those are questions I would address to your local distribution utility.
Especially Question #1.
 
drsportster said:
1 is anyone in Florida getting any payback from overproducing more than they use from the power company ? 2 Are these panels owned or leased ?3 Can you just buy your own inverter plus panels and install yourself ? 4 Is it even worth doing ?
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Have had 30 panels feeding the power grid for 3 years.Cost me about $30,000 with subsidies and payback is about 14 years. they are supposed to last 25 years . SWI .
 
Every state is different,and every power provider is different.I've worked on dozens of them here in N.H. and I doubt any of our procedures here would apply to you.I worked for the installer,NOT the solar companies that sold the systems.Do your homework locally,and watch the salesmen.Bottom line is,it works,and all I've worked on wind up with yearly overages.Too much overage and you will be labelled as a producer,not a road you want to go down for just a few hundred dollars a year.Best setup I've sen was my BIL.His usage was known,and between geo-thermal and solar his payback was projected to be just over seven years.It paid for itself in less than four.He did adjust some trees to get optimum exposure.
 
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