Installed solar panels on my home in The Villages in 2005. Florida had a program at that time giving me $4/watt. Received $12,000 for a system that cost me $15,000. The system generated about 4 megawatts/year, giving me a savings of about $600/year. By the sixth year the system had paid for itself and the $600 was true savings. Needed to replace the roof in 2020, so I scrapped the system at that time. Total savings over the life of the system was about $6,000. I did all the work to install and remove to avoid labor costs. These types of systems will never be cost effective unless the state or federal government subsidize them as they did mine.
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