Forcing Your Neighbors to Pay For Your Electric Bill

Every couple of years I review the State and Federal Solar incentive projects and post asking for REAL WORLD data on this forum….. No one ever responds with actual data from their Solar Installation.

We get a lot of fuzzy comments like “its working really well,” and “it’s saving me a lot of money,” or “Talk to Brooklyn Solar Works,” but no one actually posts a dollars and cents real world summary for their building.

I long ago came to the opinion that solar is a scam, and until they can either cut the costs in half or double the wattage produced by a standard solar panel for the same production cost… it ain’t gonna be financially a winner in our latitude with only 3.5 solar hours/day charging time.

The only people who “win” outside the virtue signalers are the solar installers who actual receive the hard dollar incentive money from the state and Feds (outside the crumbs produced from net metering.)

Now I know I’m asking for a beating…. But can anyone post a summary of REAL WORLD data from an actual solar installation on a one or two family home here in Brooklyn whi ch actually does better that a break even or slightly better from the home owners standpoint.

I’m an advocate of time shifting ConEds kWh rate to after midnight with the application of whole house batteries and “time of use” billing.

In my opinion this would be a more sensible approach to saving money on my less than $250/month (without heat pumps figured in) electric bill.

But this plan (whole house battery) seems to be endlessly stuck in some sort of review… and with these lithium powered bikes causing fires everywhere, I fear we are a long way off from simply hanging a battery between the electrical drop off and my breaker box.

As I told a friend of mine who worked briefly for a solar installer…

All you have to do is look at the rooftops out the window of the bus while on the BQE or Belt Parkway. How many solar installations do you see? The answer is: very few… That’s gotta tell you something.

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