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by technotarek 870 days ago
One man’s experience in DC (where the SRECs are crazy valuable):

Installed 10Mwh system in 2021 for ~$40k.

After federal tax credits, SREC earnings, reductions in electric bills, and payments from electric co for over production, we have $7k left to recoup in only 3 years. And that ignores savings from the gas we’re not spending on charging the PHEV.

I know it’s a luxury to have, but there’s also some pride value (clearly!). Fortunate circumstance if you’re in the right place and have the cash. I wish the investment was more broadly accessible.

1 comments

10MWh?
I have a 7k system. In 4 months since I have installed I have made about 3MW? Would have been more but ... winter. Maybe that is what they mean?
Presumably KWh? That’d be ~25 rather than ~25,000 panels.
Could be an annual measure of expected output.
That’s the only thing which makes sense with the magnitude and unit used
Sorry, yes 10KWh!
Surely 10 kWh