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I am building a home in DAllas right now. I am using Ecowatt out of Houston. My system is 30k less federal rebates (no local rebates...not even from Green Mountain Energy) and will provide just over half of the power for a home that is 3883 ft2. Their service has been wonderful thus far. www.ecowattdesign.com<br><br><br><br><hr>From: ullearn@gmail.com<br>To: ausev@austinev.org<br>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:17:48 -0500<br>Subject: [ausev] Residental Solar Power<br><br>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does
anyone have experience with solar panels for home use? </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">A
couple weekends ago the company solarcommunity.net was organizing
neighborhood residents who may be interested in installing solar panels at
home. The business pitch is to get as many residents together to go in on
purchasing to reduce the costs associated with installing a solar
system.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">I
did my initial research and found that the cost of a 3k kw solar system of
$20-23k with a cost to me of $9k (using Austin Energy and Federal
rebates) would take about 20 years to pay back (with solar panels having a
life of 25 years or so). Ideally I could better invest my money in
purchasing clean energy from Austin energy clean energy directly, but I am
still planning to attend a meeting they are holding to hear their
pitch and wanted to see anyone else's experience or thoughts on installing solar
panels.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Thanks,<br>Dustin</span></p></div>
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