Comments on: Solar Energy News

By: $10 Million Prize for Companies that Can Install 5,000 New Rooftop Solar Panel Systems for $2/Watt - CleanTechnica

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:52:23 +0000

[…] including the $1.5 million awarded to Clean Power Finance that I discussed earlier today and the $500,000 EnergySage received “to develop and implement a web-based solar photovoltaic (PV) comparison-shopping platform […]

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:43:00 +0000

yeah, i know. believe me, i wish we could cover them all in more depth. also, though, it seems that most people actually prefer fewer posts… survey results should be publishing tomorrow.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Going back to your earlier request for comments on how to present stories like this. I think there’s some great stories here that I almost missed because they were all together. It is like being a kid in sweetshop.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:40:00 +0000

I avoided a $300,000 hook up fee by going off the grid.

(3.5 miles at $16/foot.)

My previous house was about 1/4 mile from the nearest power pole. I installed a solar system for about half the cost of hooking up.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:21:00 +0000

Off-Grid verses On-Grid. A couple numbers that people forget to point out but are easy to find if you look also make off-grid sound even better.
1) The cost of installing the power connect if your house isn’t already attached to the grid. Even beeing just 500yrds from the power companys pole is costly when you are charged by the foot.
2) Pull out you electric bill and READ it. Since my power supplier is not my power distributer it is easy to see that 44% of my cost is for bringing the power to my door and 56%.
3) We lose power (<5 mins) normally a couple times a year, worst was after a storm and we lost power for 10 days.