Posted on 09/12/2024 2:34:26 PM PDT by simpson96
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was back in mid-Michigan this week to promoting efforts to reduce gas emissions and energy costs.
During a visit to an East Lansing home, Stabenow met with a homeowner who has utilized tax incentives to install solar panels on her roof.
The Siegler family installed solar panels on their home and qualified for a federal credit of $8500 dollars. Michelle Jokisch Polo / WKAR-MSU The Siegler family installed solar panels on their home and qualified for a federal credit of $8500 dollars. “These new panels are allowing her to save money on their monthly utility bills and be part of tackling the climate crisis at the same time which is terrific,” Stabenow said.
The tax credits are available through the Inflation Reduction Act and are intended for energy efficient upgrades and can cover up to thirty percent of the total cost of a solar panel installation.
“Two years ago, we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the strongest efforts, most comprehensive efforts, to address the climate crisis, more clean energy manufacturing in our country,” said Stabenow. “And by the way, when you talk about manufacturing, you are talking about Michigan,” said Stabenow.
For homeowner Anne Siegler, installing solar panels in her home was a no-brainer.
She says the upfront cost to install solar panels was $26,000. She received $8,500 in federal tax credits and a $2,000 check from the Lansing Board of Water and Light.
“We are super super happy that the federal tax credit was available to us and it enabled us to do this job. For our kids’ future, for Michigan’s future, for the future of our country and the planet.”
Here in FL, I get harassed by solar salesmen several times a year.
She looks old enough to not be worried about DISPOSING of those panels 20 years from now.
Mother Nature knows solar panels are best used in sunny areas like Egypt, southern California, Arizona and Florida.
Two questions-
1) How long will it take to get 16k worth of electricity out of it?
2) When’s the next hailstorm?
The adrenochrome is doing right by her...
And was still out-of-pocket after the "incentives". Yes, having those things in Michigan that far north in the dead of winter, you'd have to have no brain to bother with them. I doubt you could get a decent daily output even around June 21st.
I bet she is happy with he tax credit.
I am not. Despite it being paid for by the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ that tax credit is inflationary.
Also it is very likely that her solar panels are made in communist China that is very agressively expansionist.
Her solar panels are going to be very inefficient“We are super super happy that the federal tax credit was available to us and it enabled us to do this job. For our kids’ future, for Michigan’s future, for the future of our country and the planet.”
Her solar panels will be very inefficient in winter and useless at night.
The article says that the panels were installed ‘on her home’ this means most likely on the roof. This is unfortunate for a senior citizen because solar panels require cleaning on a regular basis to maintain best efficiency. It also means that the panels probably have a fixed mounting and can not follow that sun for maximum efficiency.
For anyone living at her latitude, solar panels are probably a net loss and unless energy prices rise a lot she will most likely be dead before they pay for themselves.
They may benefit her if there is a power outage and she invest in a battery pack.
But I would have advised agains this.
There’s a whole bunch of homies on West Grand River, West Saginaw and West Kalamazoo that rent on Section 8 and the landlord ain’t no way gonna put in solar unless it’s free and fits on his stolen EBT cards.
Lipstick Liberals
Sunshine in Michigan
It happens occasionally, between Mothers Day and Labor Day.
Well she IS saving the planet.
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