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Hello - new to the forum and looking to educate myself and make a smart decision on a residential PV system.
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Start your education by investing ~ $ 20 in a book, "Solar Power Your Home for Dummies", particularly the parts dealing with use reduction and conservation. After that, download PVWatts and read the help/info screens a couple of times. Then, learn how you are charged for electricity by your power company (the "POCO"). Know that PV is a bit less expensive than in the recent past, but price declines have sort of flattened out. Know too that net metering is becoming not as sweet of a deal as it was as POCOs have learned to work the Net Energy Metering game as promulgated by politicians.
After all that, come back here, ask questions you can't answer on your own and/or begin to fill in knowledge gaps your self education leaves or creates. Doing it that way will make the questions you ask, as well as the answers you get back, better. It'll also waste less time.
After all that, and if economics have any place in your decision making, you may find that PV is not necessarily the slam dunk no brainer that the greenwash media, the solar merchants and their unknowing tree hugger shills would have you believe. Or you may find the economics doable and OK by your searching. Either or any way, you'll make better decisions. Knowledge is power. Get some and use the power it gives you to learn reality from B.S. and avoid getting screwed by your own ignorance.
Welcome to the neighborhood and the forum of few(er) illusions.
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