[Crusher138]

Now I’m conflicted. We have Solar City and love it. It has taken my $300 average power bill down to $6 average to PNM and $130 to Solar City. My worst month, July, usually averages about $600 for electricity and this year was $260 total.

In NM having solar power on your home serious appreciates it’s value, especially if they are not visible from the front of the property.

[palmer]

In NM solar makes sense, relatively dry and cloudless. Around here in Virginia solar is mainly a scam. The solar electricity produced on hot sunny days in summer is valuable for A/C. It can shave some expensive peaking power from the grid mix. But the rest of the year the solar owners are mooching from other ratepayers. They get paid top dollar (retail price) for power that is less reliable and less useful than wholesale power.

The difference can be pretty large. Solar providers get paid 12 cents for power created away from peak because peak is after sunset in winter. That power is unreliable. In contrast we can buy reliable power, even at peak, for 4 cents. Which is a better deal, power we don't need and is not reliable for 12 cents, or power delivered at peak time, reliably, for 4 cents?

[mrsmith]

There are huge subsidies for solar from taxpayers and the other electric customers.

That will end some day and you may find the contract terms lock you into a bad deal then.

But that day may be a very long way away.
Get it while you can.