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by happyopossum 1408 days ago
A) financing is crazy, don’t do it B) if the ROI doesn’t work, don’t do it.

For many people though (older / less efficient homes, larger families, more expensive electricity) it makes a lot of sense. I did a 10kw system on my last home and the break even point was 6 years. The couple with no kids that bought the house from us likely won’t have an electric bill above $0 for years…