That must have cost a fortune in the day.k
Thanks for the mention.
No problem...the vast majority of rooftop solar installed in the last 10-15 years, but I remember some being installed as early as the early 1990’s in the Fresno, CA area. (A residential PV solar company called “Unlimited Energy” was located across from my workplace in the ‘90’s).
Spend $15,000+ to buy and install the panels. They do not last as advertised and the money saved = 0. You divide the cost vs the .10 cents a kw and you saved nothing.
In Calif. everyone else is subsidizing the solar electricity by paying .20 cents to .25 cents per kw vs .10 cents most places in the USA.
Excerpts: $2 to $4 worth of materials are recovered from each panel.
It costs roughly $20 to $30 to recycle a panel versus $1 to $2 to send it to a landfill.
It is like buying a $11,000 2014 Ford electric car and finding out it costs $14,000 to replace the battery plus installation costs as a Florida family recently found out.