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Old 02-19-2010, 03:23 PM   #17
WilsonFourTwo
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I was quoted about $30,000 to equip my house with solar panels. They said it would be enough to power my whole house. Thought about it, still thinking about it.
Must be a significant house (or full of teenagers, lol).

I definitely want to go down that route as well. My opinion though - it's not worth generating (at or near) 100% power unless you can sell the excess back to the grid at a reasonable value. To my knowledge (which admittedly is about year dated) that this isn't the case in Alberta.

Still love the notion - perhaps have enough capacity to generate 75% of your needs, and use the evil corporation to supplement the heavy months?
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