And 10% for the “big guy”?
I would love if some of these subsidies could pay for me to get a new solar roof. Would be great to have a zero dollar electric bill and 100% uptime.
Right?
I’ve been interested in solar roofing for literally decades. What’s kept me from doing it so far is mostly cost but also lower availability to consumers who want to install it themselves rather than use contractors. If it was as cheap and easy to purchase as walking into Home Depot and buying something the same price as regular roofing tiles, I’d have made the switch ages ago.
Supposedly even the expensive ones like the tesla solar roof can pay itself off in 10 years. If you know you will be there in ten years it’s not totally a waste of money.
Yeah, I’ve heard those claims too. Problem is that I would like to sell my house but didn’t get around to it before Biden fucked up the economy. If we got someone good in and they turned things around, I would love to gtfo and find a new house further from the city and traffic.
But I’m not in a rush to sell at a loss. In the mean time, I’m trying to focus on my savings.
Anyway, most of the solar panels I’ve looked at are either cheapo Chino ones that will probably crap out fast or else they’re quick to point out that “pay for itself in 10y” thing and have a big price tag to match… But somehow everytime I look up photovoltaic cells in the past, I see all this stuff about them having found this and that way to decrease price. Not sure if they just need to keep working on that cost cutting or there’s some greedy fuckers that are gatekeeping the tech until you pay the “ransom” fee.
I really want the tesla solar roof https://youtu.be/UJeSWbR6W04
It is so sexy. just at near 100K it’s just not worth it for me. A ten year loan would have to be like 15,000$ to match my current electricity bill.
But if you get the 30% tax rebate and maybe did it when you just got hail damage and can get your insurance to cover a large portion that price could potentially double to like 30 to 40k.
