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Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo
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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Its a modest little house. My wife is the culprit. She leaves every light on in the house. If was an engineer I would design a light bulb that had mini solar panels around itself so it could generate its own power. I got 2 portable air conditioners a few summers ago because my wife was 8 months pregnant and miserable to live with, cold air fixed that problem.
Its when I got my electricity bill that summer that got me thinking about solar panels. Its about the price of a car.