If you could get solar panels installed onto your house, would you?
Assuming it cost a one-time fee of like, $2,000 to install them onto your house. After the installation though, your electric bill would decrease by about 80%…
So, would you get them installed even though they are considered to be big and ugly?
I’m just wondering, because I don’t see any solar panels on any houses, and yet the technology is hear for people to be using them. Also, some people who have had them installed, get so much power, that they actually make money, because they put power into the city’s electrical grid.
Also, if you don’t have solar panels on your house, why don’t you have them?
First, to previous answerer, you can get solar shingles.
I could install them myself and have looked into it. Esthetics is not a serious consideration to me.
What is a consideration is that they are not yet cost effective, by which I mean that they will not make enough electricity to pay for themselves before they wear out. Yes, they wear out in less than 25 years. There are several kinds, but they all start loosing effectiveness pretty quickly – the more expensive kind more slowly as you might guess.
There have been a number of good articles out about this lately, unfortunatly the only ones I can remember for sure, I read in print – the best was about two months ago in fine home building.
As is commonly said, it is still much more cost effective to replace old appliances with more efficient ones than it is is to create solar energy.
I replaced my washer and dryer with the more efficient front loads, got an eficient fridge and upgraded to a 95% eficient heat pump. I imagine I will also do solar if it ever gets even close to cost effective.
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