If all goes well this picture will be of me standing on my roof toasting the sun for providing us with her money saving rays.
My goal with that title was to try to convey to you the feeling Kristi and I have towards SMUD these days. Over the last few years they have been continually raising their rates and we are ending up paying more per month for power when in actuality we are using less of it. This doesn't work for me. So we are doing our best to "fight the man" with some help from Mother Nature. In a couple of weeks we will be generating our own electricity through the awesome power of the sun. When all is done we will no longer be paying SMUD a dime. In fact if all goes according to plan SMUD will be cutting us a check at the end of every year to buy back the extra power that we generate. It all sounds good. Here's hoping that it actually works that way.
I have to say that getting solar is much more reasonable than I had anticipated. With all the rebates and tax credits available systems are selling for about 50% off and you will be paying less per month for they system then you would for your electricity bill. I will be posting updates on our progress as our solar panels get installed and up and running.
If anyone is interested in getting solar for their house I have a great guy to talk to. He was super cool.
Good for you Matt glad to see you're using the sun you have enough of it there to make this work quite nicely.
Posted by: Nancy Jane York | August 28, 2010 at 01:51 PM