05-10-2013, 03:10 PM
There are solar solutions out there if you own the house and want to lease the system. I just had one installed and turned on in December as we do consume a lot of electricity being an all electric house with a pool and that filter pump was $100.00 a month by itself. I went with Revolusun thru Sunpower. The main thing is, the cost to install was zero. Now I pay them less than what I used to pay HELCO every month, and then I only pay HELCO $20.50 a month to act as my batteries. Its called net energy, I don't own the solar system but am buying the electricity from the company at the set rate for the lease time. Doing this my cost is lower than what it was with just HELCO, and my prices will not change for the next 20 years.
They monitor it thru the internet and yes you do have to have an internet connection or they wont install you. We all know HELCO prices are going to keep going up not down, so at this point, I don't have to worry about any price changes for 20 years, and any maintenance that needs to be done for the solar, such as an inverter going out after about 10 years which is a common thing, they replace it free. After the 20 years you can buy it at the cost of a 20 year old system (not much) or continue the lease and they continue to replace they parts of the system as needed.
I had a hard time at first thinking but what do I do if they go bankrupt as many solar companies have. The answer I got was if they do go bankrupt, they won't be coming to take the system down as that would cost them too much... so at that point it was a no brainer, if it happened I'd have a free system. Again, zero out to install and get going, then just a regular monthly payment depending on the size of the system and power needed but definitely much less than what you are paying HELCO now. You can also get paid for referrals (not that I've tried).
They monitor it thru the internet and yes you do have to have an internet connection or they wont install you. We all know HELCO prices are going to keep going up not down, so at this point, I don't have to worry about any price changes for 20 years, and any maintenance that needs to be done for the solar, such as an inverter going out after about 10 years which is a common thing, they replace it free. After the 20 years you can buy it at the cost of a 20 year old system (not much) or continue the lease and they continue to replace they parts of the system as needed.
I had a hard time at first thinking but what do I do if they go bankrupt as many solar companies have. The answer I got was if they do go bankrupt, they won't be coming to take the system down as that would cost them too much... so at that point it was a no brainer, if it happened I'd have a free system. Again, zero out to install and get going, then just a regular monthly payment depending on the size of the system and power needed but definitely much less than what you are paying HELCO now. You can also get paid for referrals (not that I've tried).