Posted on 09/14/2022 9:15:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked today during the daily press briefing about the Inflation Reduction Act.
The question came today as the latest consumer price index showed an increase of 0.1% for August and 8.3% over the past year.
The reporter asked, “Some of the savings that you are pointing to wouldn’t kick in until 2024 or 2026, so is it fair to suggest to people somehow that they are going to see some inflation reduction right now while they are hurting the most?”
Jean-Pierre responded, “That is actually not true. This is just for some folks who are watching, consumers, families, and small business owners can head to clean to cleanenergy.gov as it relates to clean energy cost… to learn how they can start saving money immediately.”
She then listed off examples of what Americans can “save” on right now from the government website.
“Households can receive a tax credit to cover 30% of the costs of installing rooftop solar.”
“Households can receive a tax credit to cover up to 10% of the cost of insulation materials and other energy efficient improvements, like energy-saving windows and doors.”
“They can also receive a $300 tax credit for purchasing efficient heating and cooling equipment, like a heat pump or central air conditioner.”
“Households can receive a $300 tax credit for purchasing a heat pump. The total of current and previous years credits, including those for energy efficiency improvements, high efficiency furnace and air conditioners cannot exceed $500.”
“Americans can receive a tax credit of up to $7,500 for purchasing a new electric vehicle.”
No, renters can buy into solar farms
And they prolly wont last that long in hot climates, like Phoenix. The sun will eventually warp and destroy the panels, just like it does on those those solar powered outdoor Malibu lights.
Just like EV cars....few people can afford the initial outlay for solar...no less wait around to benefit from their fleecing.
I’m in Florida. I know people with solar panels. Just found out that when the insurance company inspects your property that if they are mounted on the house they cancel you. If you have a mortgage you are in for a serious problem. The sales people aren’t telling the customers this.
1. I do have batteries: I now have 18 5.14kWh each (total 92kWh storage). For the first year I had 6 of them as part of Phase I to study the results for a year before adding to it in Phase II (last month) to have the full system I originally was shooting for. They are Gyll brand name (the only part of the system made in Cheyna) LifePo4. They each put out at 48V/100Ah (in some ways it's 51V/100Ah) for a total of 4.8kW at a time.
2. I have 2 inverters so that they work in parallel. If I was buying the original system this year I'd have a handful of smaller inverters working in parallel. As it is I bought a good one last year in Phase I with the understanding that if I liked the results I'd buy a 2nd one to double the inverter capacity (and charge controller capacity). Together they give me a total of 18kW continuous AC power from DC (whether the DC power comes from the panels or the batteries or a combination of the two). So if my clothes dryer is on high (6kW) while the old A/C was running (4kW) plus 1kW of various consumption in the house, with just one 9kW inverter it'd have to pull the remaining 2kW from the grid even if my batteries were fully charged and it was a bright sunny day. Then there was my switching over my two natural gas appliances to electric (which increased my power load some, though when doing so I got rid of the old A/C unit and I now use a variable speed heat pump for both A/C and most of my heat). And yes, since the inverters are also charge controllers I needed to double my inverter capacity anyway during Phase II when I doubled my solar panel capacity. Then on top of that I now have an EV -- one of the reasons I got this inverter brand is because it has an optional feature to power a separate electrical panel only on the condition that my home batteries are charged at least so much (I have it set right now to 80% SOC). Thus, if my EV isn't fully charged, but charged enough to get me at least 100 miles, I plug the EV into an intermittently powered 240V outlet (I'll get a charge only if it's free solar power I had no other use for anyway). Of course, if I come home with the EV on a low charge or if I planned a weekend getaway the next day, I plug the EV into a constantly powered 240V outlet that's tied to the normal electrical panel.
3. How many panels does it take to generate ~1800kWh?month in the summer? I used http://tsi.tyconsystems.com/html/nrel_lookup.htm to get the average daily peak solar hours each month in your area, assumed a 10% loss in efficiency, and was almost spot on in my calculations with my initial solar install (for Phase II this year my calculations are based on my first year's performance alone). Let's say for July it shows 5.3 peak solar hours in your area.
1800 X 100 ÷ 90 ÷ 30 ÷ 5.3 = 12.6 kW needed per peak solar hours on sunny days. (That was 1800 desired kWh/month X 100 ÷ 90 to account for a 10% efficiency loss, divided by 30 to convert from monthly to daily, divided by peak solar hours per day that month.) To achieve 12.6kW daily, if your panels are 330W that's 12600 ÷ 330, which is 38 panels.
I'd also suggest going to https://www.wunderground.com/history (I hope no connection to old school domestic terrorists like Obama's man Bill Ayers and that Weather Underground). Pick some dates that you know were extremely hot and extremely cold (if heating with electricity like I'm now doing). I was pleased to find out that in my area, almost every time it's either really hot or really cold it's a sunny day. Thus I have free solar power when my home needs it most (for the extra power needed to cool the house our heat the house to handle the temperature extreme). If that's not the case for you then you might not want to go solar -- winning the battle over cooling and heating is the primary battle in winning over the power bill.
If your attic gets really hot like mine does, you might also want to consider a hybrid water heater whether or not you go solar. (Winning the battle over the water heater is probably the 2nd most important battle of saving on home energy costs.) A hybrid water heater has a built-in heat pump and heats the water tank by drawing heat from the air around it. In my case, I duct the air intake from the attic: pulling in really hot air with plenty of heat so the water heater doesn't have to work as hard to find heat from the air. For the cold air output of the water heater I sometimes vent that into my living quarters so my home A/C (variable speed heat pump) doesn't have to work quite as hard during the 8 or 9 months I'm cooling the house. During the winter months I flip a wye lever on my output duct and push the cool air output into the attic (but away from the air input). That one trick is helping me save power on both keeping my home cool and on heating my water -- all while the water heater draws only 300 watts anyway (but admittedly it does run for 2 hours during the summer and 4 hours during the winter, but it's till better than a 4kW normal electric water heater running for 30 minutes).
I'd have to stop and scratch my head for the recent solar upgrade costs because that's intermixed with other recent power saving costs like getting an EV, installing charging outlets, and setting up a separate electrical panel for charging the EV more efficiently. That's what's now giving me 90% of all the power I need.
Sorry, I don’t listen to anything French, Lesbian Teeny-Boppers say.
So, not including the EV, what did it cost you to get up to the 90% of your current power usage?
Didn’t you just recently buy more batteries and another inverter?
“The ONLY reason to install a Solar system is to achieve a level of independence in the event the grid goes down. “
So about that! I am working with these systems in a support role.
Our utilities actually shut them when the power goes out to prevent power back feeding into the lines.
Yeah that doesnt make sense and takes away a benefit of them .
A friend is an HVAC Mechanic. He replaced my furnace and AC for less than half the other quotes, yet a $300 rebate would still be a drop in the bucket.
We just paid $7500 for a new TRANE Central HVAC. The old one was a 10 SEER, this one is a 14...................
My price for both was $4000. Best quote was $7500.
The EV helps bring it from 80% to 90% by the simple fact that the EV doesn't have to be charged every day. Even though I don't use the EV's battery as part of my home battery storage, the EV's large battery capacity keeps it from usually demanding a charge on rainy days (letting me usually wait until a sunny day to charge it). Since the EV was always part of my Phase II upgrade strategy, I didn't do the math on how much solar equipment I would have added without an EV in mind.
Not to forget if you use the right credit card you get 2% back.
Like buying 10 items on sale for $100 off so you have $1,000 extra to buy something else.
This woman is an imbecile..........................Yep, but more importantly, she knows the MSM is an imbecile and she thinks you are, too.
Households can receive a tax credit to cover 30% of the costs of installing rooftop solar.”Excellent! Now can she explain how apartment dwellers, some 15-17% of Americans, can install rooftop solar in their ceilings? Or what good will it do for the 5% of Americans who live in trailer homes? Or what about the Dims precious homeless? Can they put a solar panel on their shopping cart?
But first I’d have to cut down about 20 old growth trees around my house...naaaaaaa
And one west Texas hailstorm will completely destroy.
I understand the panels are difficult to TRASH.
Typical thinking ahead as the Left always does. There is NO THINKING AHEAD.
Don’t get me started on Electric cars!
The only constraint to switching over to your home solar here is that you have Battery backup, which is what we have in process.
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