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by detourdog 1117 days ago
Different scene in the USA he government incentives in USA and Massachusetts made it a great investment.

I have the same size array and I think it was $48K USD 8 years ago before tax credits. I have now sold more SRECs than the initial cost of the array. I also rarely receive an electric bill. Finally it was installed on a standing seam roof so no roof penatrations.

I haven't noticed any decrease in production and will expect that most of the cost of the original install to be on physical installation and when it comes to replace the equipment I can tell it will be cheaper and more performant then my existing system.

Planetary concerns exist but I feel that we are world full of manufacturing crimes and there is no reason to hold solar to higher standard. I also think that the decentralization that solar provide an efficiency that isn't obvious on it's face.