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3 Reasons to Install Solar Panels
There are several excellent reasons to convert your home's electrical system to solar power now. Here are our top three:
First, there's the financial aspect. If you spend an average of two hundred dollars a month on standard electricity, that adds up to about twenty-four hundred dollars a year or nearly eighty-two thousand dollars over a twenty-five year period. Say you install a 1.5 KW photovoltaic system at a cost of around thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Deduct around twenty-five hundred dollars for the California clean energy rebate and about four thousand dollars for the federal tax credit. This makes the actual cost of installing your home solar system approximately seven thousand dollars. Adding a 1.5 KW solar system to your home will increase your home's value by nearly ten thousand dollars so you're already ahead of the game. Every year that you use your solar system instead of relying solely on the electric company, you will save hundreds and hundreds of dollars. If you were to squirrel away the money you save on electricity costs, at the end of a twenty-five year period you would have amassed over forty thousand dollars. This is the ideal time to go solar because tax rebates and clean energy incentives have never been more appealing.
Secondly, you will dramatically increase the value of your home or business property. Not only will an effective and efficient solar array add to the selling price of your property, it will add to the inherent value of the property by assuring significant savings in monthly utility costs. These savings add up to literally tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the property and may be an important factor to a buyer deciding whether to purchase your property or another. If you have reasonably good credit, we may be able to put you together with lenders who are willing to make a home equity or solar loan to you so that you may install solar collectors on your property.
Quite possibly the most important and best reason to install and use solar panels is environmental impact. Solar power utilizes free energy from the sun which shines in abundance most days of the year. solar power causes no emissions or greenhouse gases, unlike traditional utility-provided electricity. Even when you factor in the small bit of pollution caused by the actual manufacturing process, solar panels leave virtually no carbon footprint at all. An average-sized house equipped with solar panels in California will avoid belching out over three-hundred thousand tons of dangerous greenhouse gases over a twenty-five year period. This is the equivalent of removing two cars from the road. If even half of your neighbors decided to convert from standard electric power to solar, imagine the amount of pollution that would be avoided. Go green, save money and protect our precious planet when you opt to go solar today.
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SOLAR PANELS
