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Going greener - update
Dec 26, 2012
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here's my data for last year:
total electricity generated 2012: 13972 kwh
total electricity expense 2009 $1854 total electricity expense 2012 $200 and $240 refund for excess power generated
Savings $1894
You must have purchased your system. How may panels, kW rating, location?
- Doug
44 panels in a 7.7kw array. cave creek.
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, i purchased them june 2009. 2.5 years saved $4500 so far. payoff date should be 4.3 years, less if aps rate increases hit as planned.
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:31:07 -0700, chaniarts
Less if there's any repair fees. What about maintenance fees, if any? How long is/was the original warranty on said purchase?
Don't you get tired lugging around that bucket of cold water?
0 costs in 2.5 years. the warrantee is 10 years on the converter, and 25 years on the panels, and low production is warranteed. production has gone up in the past 2.5 years, so i'm not seeing a dropoff in production. that may be due to less cloudy days though.
they've lasted through a 1.5" diameter hailstorm, so i expect that they will last through anything normal in this area.
My system generated 12,272 kWh in 2012 - 6.4 kW system with 28 panels.
- Doug
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