When we moved to TV last year we did look into solar power for the house. As much as we would like to do our share for the environment the cost for the system was much higher than what we could afford. If I remember correctly the price was over $50K and we could expect to have it cover about 75% of our electric needs. It does help that there is a government rebate, which I do not remember the value of it, and that we could sell back power to the utility. The break even on the investment vs cost savings on the electric was somthing like 25 + years. For us the numbers just did not work out.
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