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Journey to Solar – Part One, Making the Decision
We are in the process of going solar at our house. I want to document our journey to demonstrate how simple, easy and cost-effective it can be. And hopefully inspire some of you to consider solar...
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Journey to Solar – Part Two, Financing
Once you make the decision to go solar, the next step is deciding how you want to pay for it. Solar has come a long way from the days of buying the panels outright. Today’s solar is flexible and can...
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Journey to Solar – Part Three, Auditing & Evaluation
After determining that you want to go solar and deciding how you want to finance your project, you move on to making final decisions about your system and energy needs. At this point, the solar company...
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Journey to Solar – Part Four, Rebates and Approvals
We finally got our solar panels installed last week. They aren’t operational yet…more steps in the process I will write about later. But first I need to catch up on the process so far. In my “Journey...
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Journey to Solar – Part Five, Installation, Inspection and Flipping the Switch
The day was finally here we had been waiting for – installation day. Our solar panel system is fairly large (7.2kw) so installation actually took two days. Installation was a breeze. The hardest thing...
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Journey to Solar – Part Six, A Month to Month Comparison
We’ve been solar almost six months now and are getting great results. Once we have a full year of experience, I’ll do a complete breakdown of costs and energy generation. But, to share some...
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Journey to Solar – Part Seven – First Year Savings
Now that we’ve had our solar panels for over a year, we have a better picture of how much energy they will produce/offset during the various seasons and daylight hours throughout the year. Solar City,...
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