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Bookmark or Share- solar panels - Talk of The Villages FloridaYou can end up with a roof full of panels generating $500/month more energy than you use, but they structure the contract so that you sometimes make $0/month and are stuck paying for the panels on the roof for 25 years while the solar salesperson made $10k on the sale. Here is an informative unbiased article about that.
- Solar Panel - Talk of The Villages FloridaSo using conservative low energy costs and the Hot Bucks incentive, the annual energy bill was $1281. My panels cost $13,188 after the 30% federal tax credit and provide 9,797 kWh/yr or 93% of my current energy needs. $13,188 divided by an adjusted $1191 (93%) equals a payback of 11 years.
- Solar Attic Fans - Talk of The Villages FloridaI had Solar Guys install an electric (not solar) garage fan at a cost (10 years ago) of approximately $100. It is installed to pull air through garage door vents, into the garage, and out through the fan pulling the air into the attic. It keeps the garage quite cooler, shaded air temperature, which is fine for us.
- Is Natural Gas available in new homes? - Talk of The VillagesThey tend to cost around $1400, I think, which is expensive, but they are significantly cheaper than even natural gas. Likewise, heating and cooling with a high efficiency heat pump makes great sense in Florida. Compared to the costs of installing solar energy panels, these will have you saving big money very fast.
- SECO switching to time of day billing - Talk of The VillagesSECO services most of TV as the electric utility. They have plans to switch all customers from a .11 first 1,000 kWh, .13 above 1,000 kWh: to a three tier time of day pricing plan. Super off peak (SOP) .06 per kWh. Off peak (OP) .09.
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