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Old 12-07-2011, 09:28 PM   #24
ProfessorM
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what happens if you need to do the roof over?
My bud on Cape just bought a complete system for his house. Between rebates and such came out to about 1/3 of the original price. They don't actually buy the excess electricity off him but they let you stock pile it for lack of a better word, meter turns backwards, and then when you need to draw power like after the sun goes down you then have credit. You still need to pay the delivery charge and generation fee because you are using their lines. he is not making any more electricity than he uses each day yet but when the sun is in the sky for longer periods of time he expects to stockpile a decent amount but will take the whole year for him to get the whole idea on what it pans out to be. Let us know how it works out for you in the future as I have thought about this too.

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