Pros & Cons of solar power

Anywho, looking at getting solar for the house(s) too, but can't invest for now so might just prep the cabling while the electricians do their work as we're at that phase of the 'build'. We're much more favourable for it here and I have the space, the problem is funding :lol:
 
I pay my for my solar install monthly and the amount I get from selling back to the grid covers that cost. I've reduced my gas/electric by over 50%. Granted my house sits in a near perfect orientation and I have an oversized array to be best placed to make that back. Just shows that it is possible to be a worthwhile investment here.
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I pay my for my solar install monthly and the amount I get from selling back to the grid covers that cost. I've reduced my gas/electric by over 50%. Granted ⚠️my house sits in a near perfect orientation⚠️ and⚠️I have an oversized array to be best placed to make that back⚠️. Just shows that it is possible to be a worthwhile investment here.

Possible...yeah; never said it wasn't. Practical for most? Nope, not the way they like to make it sound. You still had to list some caveats for your specific situation to work for you, just like how I listed some in my initial reply. You can't convince me mate. We have about 300 days of pure "make you spontaneously combust" sunshine here and we've all heard the stories from neighbors and/or lived the solar lie. The main thing you have going for you over there is you typically don't have air conditioning use and, if you do, it's limited. With all our sun we still have to use it at scale here to make it work like you'd expect and then you're talking 2k-acre arrays...that's a big Seiko.

I'm a fan of solar but only at utility-scale, not individual...for now, at least. I think I'll be in a home before the dream they sell is a reality. For now it's for folks with first-world problems or people with no domestic power at all who receive it as a gift, if they're lucky.
 

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