Solar Energy in Florida?

There are so many people who do not understand how solar works. And then a lot of people do not have the start up cost and can't get a loan. Then you have to add in the people who are lazy and are not willing to pickup a pencel and do the math. Or they just don't know how to do the math. And then there are the people who wear blinders and don't want to see the savings and profit in solar.

A statement from one of the answers above is proof that people are blinded or just unwilling (lazy if I may say) to think it over. If you move you will add the cost of the solar power system to the price of hour home. When you do that you get all your money back and how many years you lived there in free electric.

The statement was also made that you have to replace the batteries twice in 20 years. That is very true if you have batteries on your system. I am willing to bet a dollar that there are more grid tie only systems installed then are systems with batteries.

Then as was said above it takes 15 to 20 years for the system to pay for it's self. If the systems without batteries will last from 30 to 40 years and adding in the inflation rate you would save anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 in the system life time.

Better then playing the stock markets and pays you back more money then having money setting in a saveing account.

You will not see a lot of solar powered homes in any part of the world. This is because it makes no economic sense for a homeowner if the power lines run past the property. The installation cost is well over $12,000 for a fairly minimal system and the payback period is generally estimated at 15 to 20 years if nothing goes wrong with the cells, the batteries, the inverters and so forth.

Many people do not live in any home for more than seven to ten years. In a 20 year period the batteries will probably need to be replaced at least once and probably twice at a cost of a thousand or so.

It only makes sense if you live in an isolated area with no power going past.

On another site a man from Florida set out the costs of a solar powered home and came to the conclusion it just was not worth it. However he did find that a solar hot water service, which he did not at first consider, was far less expensive. He installed it and it cut 20 to 25% off his bills and obviously his power use straight away.

The payback period for a solar hot water service in a climate like Florida is estimated as 5 years. Cost depends on the size of the system but a fairly large one can be put in for about $3,000. Then there are tax credits as well.

You can find much more stuff about this on the net if you look about.

Solar power is not used because it is not cost effective for most consumers. It works well for those wealthy enough to do it just for the environmental savings, but is much more expensive than normal power. It is also good for locations where electric power is not available, although it is not reliable all the time and normally cannot provide air conditioning.

It is not a government or oil company plot. It is just the simple facts. If solar was cost effective, it would be used everywhere. Hollywood and the media have duped many.

I watched a documentary on Public TV. They showed a wealthy home owner in Tenn. raving about his great solar system, and that everyone could just put a system in and did not need the electric co. Never mentioned that it would cost $30,000-$40,000 for the system, and even then would not support air conditioning. Never mentioned it would never pay back. Never mentioned all the inconvenience when it is cloudy and rainy weather.

Until recently, homeowners associations could ban solar collectors in Florida. Almost all of them did because some people think they are ugly.

Recently, the Florida Legislature passed a law prohibitting homeowners associations from banning solar collectors. However, since the collectors cost thousands of dollars to install and the home owner only makes that money back over several years, and many homeowners here are elderly, they aren't willing to spend the money to install solar collectors becase they will not make back the investment before they go into a nursing home or die.

Solar power will come to South Florida, but it's going to take a while.

It does not work, what you have been told is lies, and you need to wake up to reality. To run just the LIGHTS in a house, nothing more, would take 5 noraml house roofs covered with panal to run just the lights. To run a house, water heater, stove you would need a parking lot

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