So i went to a presentation at work today about a new "discount" we get with a solar panel installation place, because i've thought about it but the returns for my situation (MN has less sun and less cooling and cheaper utilities....) is not worth it.
Anyhow among the solar presenters was a guy from my company that talked about his solar panel installation with them. He wanted to save money on his utility bills so he went with solar. His project was $58,000 for 13KW no batteries or anything just solar, down to $43,000 after rebates (mostly federal, some local), for this summer that size installation covered about 60% of his houses electric bill.
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his monthly AVERAGE bill for JUST the electric part was $300 / month. in MN!!!!!!!!!! We only use A/C like 2 months a year, and then gas in winter for heating. Not to mention electric is about $0.08 / kwh here, so he used about 3750 kwh electric PER MONTH!!!!!!!!!
The house is also 4300 square feet, 1990s construction by the picture. Which is large for sure, but i have friends in 6000 square foot places that average less than $150 / month for the electric part (for you HCOL people MN is cheap, a 6,000 sq ft house can be as low as $500k, plenty of people in my income bracket were foolish enough to buy them).
i'm just baffled. by my numbers he'd have to leave ~30 60-Watt light bulbs on 24/7 to go from a more reasonable bill to that one.
O, and for the record, my monthly average for electric is below $60, and i'm trying to get that lower....