Solar Definitely Isn't Enough For The 3-2 Coldest Months
The contractor that I spoke with provided a "guarantee" that his system would keep the pool at 85 degrees or warmer with no supplemental heat for about nine months of the year (excluding from mid-December until about the first of March, as I recall). His point was that even in the coldest months your gas or electric bill would be substantially lower if you opted to heat the pool because the supplemental heater would only be used for about a 10 degree "rise" in temperature as opposed to maybe a 25 degree rise without solar panels.
After experiencing a couple shockingly high gas bills during the months that the grandkids visited, I put pencil to paper and determined that the cost of solar would pay for itself in less than 3 years.
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