Solar power confusion

[Zen Badger]

We have 1.4kw solar panels on our house.

And we got our quarterly power bill yesterday.

$8.42 in credit.

That answers my question about selling it back to the grid.

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That does make me curious though if you and Kicki use all electric or a mixture of gas and electric? Do you have a solar water heater too? We seriously considered solar about 10 years ago. Unfortunately this part of the world doesn’t get that much sun. Startup cost per watt was a lot higher then too. We were looking at a 20 year pay back on our investment. That was about the life expectancy of the system so it would have been a break even investment a best. The cost of panels has come down quite a bit since then though.

The last quarter the bill was about 90 bucks because we'd been running the A/C pretty much 24/7 over summer.

But because the bill before that was 67 dollars credit we only had to pay about 20.

I love my solar panels.

And we also have gas boosted solar hot water.

When you think about it, it's the best form of fusion energy there is.