How much money per month is it estimated to save you?
What is the life expectancy of the solar panels? What are the estimated maintenance costs?
Good question.
Their panels generate approximately 22,175 KW per year with 2 backup batteries which allegedly provide sustained power for up to 12 hours without sunlight or grid access.
I currently use on 60,000 KW per year to power my home and my spa. I'm putting in a pool heater so up that number to probably 70K in the coming year.
I currently pay on average 560.00 a month for electric
THe solar panel installation is 6,000 down and 444.24 a month over a 120 month loan lifespan.
so my electric costs drop by maybe 200 bucks but then tack on this 444 and I'm looking at 800 to 900 bucks
which wouldn't be a problem for me if those batteries lasted more than 12 hours as my primary business driver is power resiliancy in the event of an outage with a utility savings being a nice to have
I'm leaning towards my original thought of a Genrac Natural gas 22KW backup generator. It's about 6K to purchase. Plus another 2K in electrician fees
A 500lb tank will run me about 3000.00 to install and 50 bucks a month to lease and I have to use about 100.00 worth of gas every month so I'd probably go with a 215K BTU natural gas pool heater and be done with it