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It's the PP again. The challenge with calculating time to recoup costs is that it relies on either assuming the price per credit you sell back to the electric company will either remain the same or predicting what it will change to in the future. We were looking at a system that would have costs around 30k after adjusting for tax credits (that's for product and install, which you have to have done by an accredited professional if you want the tax credits) and would have presumably paid for itself in 7-10 years. The problem with those projections is that as solar because cheaper and more desirable I wouldn't expect incentives to stay the same. I also have doubts about the sustainability of the mode whereby you sell electricity back to the grid. Home batteries could be a game-changer for using solar energy though, as you could be on the grid but store some of your own energy for when you weren't generating it, making the whole arrangement much more tempting and easier to forecast due to less reliance on policies that may not be in place forever. [/quote]

I agree with all of this.  There is so much movement in this market, I'm holding out.  Elon Musk's batteries (and others to follow) could change the entire situation in the coming years.  I don't think you can count on the subsidies nor the ability to sell back electricity going forward. [/quote]

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