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Originally Posted by Stubby79
Let's see...
Such things are over priced here, north of the border.
Then add on that we get about the same amount of sunlight at the Washington guys...
And the final nail in the coffin? our electricity (simply called "Hydro" as it's always called in our province) is pretty cheap at 10c (canadian) per KWH...
Such a system would never pay for itself. Saddens me.
Can't even make an excuse that I'd be saving the planet, since we don't have any fossil-burning power plants as far as I know.
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I think BC sells it's surplus electricity to Washington and to Alberta. So installing solar would be a net positive.
I think you are right about the payback being poor ...