Ogre
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- Dennis
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My friends install was years before solar plus battery was common or remotely affordable. I think he paid $25-30k for his setup and if he’d gone with a battery setup it would have been $80k or more. Just wasn’t feasible. I think his system is paid for or will be soon.It's not just the split between wholesale and retail price. Here, if you hook up on that basis, where you are selling your output back to the grid, you're UNABLE TO USE your solar system when their grid is down. In my view, that makes it totally useless. It's NOT a backup power source.
And if one did go thru all the gyrations to sell home solar power and buy back grid power, and the result turned out to be that you were paying about the same as if just buying grid power, WTF is going on? Why would anyone do that?
Solar plus battery is definitely better. Another friend lives in Santa Rosa and they bought a Tesla solar setup specifically because their power gets shut off a lot in the fall due to fire danger.
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