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i just built a new home here in southern Texas and I'm looking at going solar, looking for feedback on issues, concerns, frustrations on going solar
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Hi Steve and welcome to Solar Panel Talk, I would recommend that you start with a bunch of reading if you have no experience with solar then start asking questions, try the sticky posts here https://www.solarpaneltalk.com/forum...-for-your-home cheers
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The weather not cooperating. I swear it has rained more in the last year and
1/2 since going solar than it did before getting it. So much for sunny Florida. Still happy though.Comment
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That is the way it goes, didnt the installer warn you? Mine never said a word. We had a long hotOriginally posted by Crash
drought here for so long it killed a lot of my trees. Since the month my solar went active, we have
had constant, record breaking rain, snow, and ice. However I learned to make a lot of KWH anyway.
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Getting the appropriate labels made up.
Note before you install a system make sure your utility is "solar friendly" some rural electric coops and on occasion large utilities have rate structures and regulations that make a grid connected system a very poor investment.Comment
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Really only minor issues that I knew before I purchased. I'm grid-tied and my power company resets my banked power account just before I could use it the most (my reset is the end of April) so I get a check for roughly $100 instead of being able to use roughly 3000kWh of energy credit as summer gets here. My neighbor has a beautiful eucalyptus tree that shades my panels partially in the morning for about a one month period in December. No big deal. I'm going on 4 years with no net billable energy costs. I only pay a meter connection fee monthly. We did all the best energy conservation measures on the house and our lifestyle before sizing and buying a system.
BTW...IMHO, never lease a system or put one on a home you plan to sell in less than 10 years. Not worth it. Invest the money elsewhere.Dave W. Gilbert AZ
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Unexpected tax increase.....
Our local Ann Arbor Mi location (which is supposed to be the greenest place east of the Mississippi) raised our taxable value $20k after our 7k system was installed. Which came out to $244 a year....Which takes off over 2 months of payback every year, or equal to a increase payback time of almost 20%.... Not Happy....Comment
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Yes....and our governor had a bill to stop it that passed through both houses with only 4 no votes and he vetoed it just before leaving office......incredible.Comment
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