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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have electric or gas water heater and furnace?  If your systems are on gas (excluding seasonal electric A/C and laundry) and you are not planning on adding battery storage to your system or selling back electricity will it even be worthwhile financially to either buy or lease?

I’ve been looking into solar for my house and keep coming back to this question.  My neighbor spent $30k on solar panels and says that they will recoup the money in only 10 years. That seems like a lot of time to me and in that time the technology can change considerably.  [/quote]

Whoa - $30K in 10 years seems like a long time to me too. I was under the assumption that since solar has become much more competitive over the last decade and the systems have improved, that the costs would be lower and the time to recoup also lower.

To answer your first question, yes we have both gas and electric. Gas water heater, furnace, cooktop, dryer. Electric for all else.  Will have to look at what SDGE says about selling energy back to them.[/quote]

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