No Cash But Want The Right To Solar Power Your Home? Ga. Rep. Has Answer
A Georgia state lawmaker introduced legislation last week that would make buying solar panels as easy as leasing a car, taking power away from Big Energy and putting it back into the hands of the people, where its once was, when people were healthier and the planet, more peaceful.
Empowering the people
“It’s a good deal if you don’t have the money to put down,” John Rountree, a Connecticut-based solar architect, told the Daily Green. “It may be the only way to go if you don’t have the cash.”
Republican Rep. Mike Dudgeon wants to encourage more solar power in Georgia by making the solar panel purchase process more like buying a car — allowing citizens to lease, rather than buy, solar panels for their homes.
Dudgeon, an electrical engineer, said his bill would provide an opportunity for property owners to lease solar panels instead of having to buy them with cash up front.
If passed, the bill might result in an increased incentive for people to power their homes with renewable energy. Dudgeon says the main reason for introducing the bill is enabling free-market financing.
“We want to make it clear that you can use whatever financing is available to finance your solar panel,” Dudgeon told the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Presently, if citizens want a solar paneled home, they’re required to buy the technology from the state electric utility.
Property owners can arrange financing through banks to buy and install solar panels, but not to work with companies specifically dedicated to both financing and operating the panels for them. Those kinds of financing agreements are permitted in 22 states, according to the Athens Banner-Herald, but present law in Georgia blocks those deals.
Dudgeon says his his bill would not change that part of that law giving state utilities exclusive power providing rights. It would, however, change those rules for small, individual solar projects.
Major power providers would still be in direct contention with the law if they sought to build or finance their own solar farms.
Though the projects opened up to leasing would be small, eventually, they would add up to big business for the state’s growing solar industry, according to Jason Rooks, president of Clean Energy Strategies LLC.
“The last few years have seen a drastic drop in prices for solar technology,” he told the Chronicle. “We’re certain that under this [legislation], national and international investment will come to Georgia.”
Climate Progress says Georgia’s fight for more solar power isn’t only about benefits to the planet by reducing emissions from fossil fuels.
“Solar, as noted by Michael Kanellos in Forbes, has been deemed a property rights issue, pitting private citizens who want to install their own panels against utilities and regulators.”
Sources: Republican Rep. Mike Dudgeon, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Daily Green, Climate Progress
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Day after tomorrow, a solar contractor begins the process of putting a 7.5KW solar system on my roof. It will supply over half of our power needs.
My wife and I looked at all the options – cash buy, lease, etc. The lease options make the cash upfront outlay much less, but they complicate the situation if you try to sell your home in a few years. The solar company owns part of your home (the solar array, wiring, inverters, etc.) and you can only sell it with their approval of the buyers after the buyers agree to assume the lease. VERY MESSY.
The cash outlay is significant to just buy a system. The payback is a whopping ten years. No, it doesn’t make much financial sense. You have to do it for other reasons.
In our case, my wife wants to do it so as to reduce monthly power bills as we look toward retirement. Personally, what energy we get from solar is energy we don’t get from the country’s biggest nuke plant (about 50 miles away). If I can reduce the amount of cesium that goes into our world by a few grams, I will.
We’ll see.
There should be more people like you. The more there are the less it will cost. It’s happening – renewable electricity generation is growing faster than fossil fuel or nuclear.
We’ve had solar panels for about 8 years, supplying about 90% of our needs including charging our electric car (we’re driving on sunlight!). Payback point will be reached in another 10 years or so, because we bought ours when they were more expensive, and electricity is cheap in this state.
We’re very happy to reduce the amount of coal used for electricity and wish everyone else would do the same. With financing, it’s affordable for the buildings that use the most electricity, which is the right place to start. Of course it would be great if state buildings would all commit to renewables.
We’re moving to a different state soon, where currently lower prices and better incentives will cut payback time to about 5 years. We may actually become a producer for other users and make some money.
The lifetime on these panels is about 40 years.
Electricity from the grid is going to be more unreliable as time goes by, so energy storage will become more important.
Solar is trash science, and cannot work. Scientifically, solar has been shown to be a fraud since 1978, but Carter pushed it hard, and so has Obama – only their friends who were in it ever made money, and repeatedly, the customer has been left on the hook for it.
Calculating surface area available for solar panel applications, it was proven that it would take almost half the United States to provide power only to the five cities of Trenton, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia and Jersey City, and their respective suburbs. That is half our land area covered in solar panels, like a giant ‘glassed turtle shell’ to power the needs of those sitting in less than 1-percent of the given land area itself. Sound great? Uh, yeah – what are you going to eat, when all that crop land is covered in Solar Panels? what about Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Louisville, Memphis? Again – pure science says it cannot work.
BUT, don’t let that stop you. Let’s look at what happened when one of the smaller solar cell companies went bankrupt in California a couple of years ago. They sold very few panels, none were direct to retail, most were flawed and faulty, and in the end, the business was an abstract failure. They also abandoned their manufacturing building, and left almost 1500-GALLONS of highly toxic manufacturing sludge in barrels in the plant. Cleanup costs were calculated to be above $100k. Manufacturing solar cells is comparable in toxic filth to nuclear waste – but this is the DIRTY SCIENCE that ‘green energy’ never brings up, either.
SOLAR is NOT the ANSWER. Neither is wind. Wind, is scientifically proven to cause actual ‘thermal warming’ of the winds due to friction, the large industrial windmills kill thousands of birds each year, among them Eagles, Hawks, endangered songbirds and more. Great way to kill the birds and increase your cost of electricity (due to tax compensations to make them competitive to traditional power stations), bad way to be ‘green’.
The greenest fuel we actually have is Natural Gas. When burned, it produces over 90-percent oxygen, and generates nearly 1-gallon of WATER (that’s right, H2O) as it’s exhaust. Why don’t you hear more about it? Because the anti-petroleum mega-rich that want to COMPETE with petroleum (Petroleum interests are in the Republican Camp, ‘Green Energy’ is in the Democrat Camp) currently own the media, and the media can’t actually tell you the truth – not when it conflicts with their political campaign.
Stop being a sheep – learn the science, learn what is actually good for the environment. Natural Gas is the only real answer we have right now.