re: Rooftop Solar is about to collapse -Time Mag.

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It's real simple.
The true cost of solar panels exceed the lifetime savings on your electric bill.
They're only a good deal if someone else pays for them.

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this x100

i set in on a sales pitch a number of years ago with my parent on someone selling their house. I ran the numbers and without the credits, the lifetime payback did not cover the non-subsidized cost of the install. When concronted, the sales person admitted that was the case.

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It's real simple.
The true cost of solar panels exceed the lifetime savings on your electric bill.
They're only a good deal if someone else pays for them.

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It's almost like they are too good to be true.

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They're only a good deal if someone else pays for them.

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We asked our real estate agent about this. Her exact words, "if you ever plan on selling this place, not a good investment".

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It's real simple. The true cost of solar panels exceed the lifetime savings on your electric bill.

They're only a good deal if someone else pays for them.

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This. And utility companies wised up real fast on how they were getting screwed with the commissions forcing a 1:1 kWh offset. Meaning utilities were forced to pay the customer the same amount for each kWh generated and put back into the grid as the kWh consumed from the electric grid. This makes no sense as a utility price per kWh includes things like O&M, capital spend with interest, forestry costs, etc. now everyone is switching to the model where utilities can charge regular rates for kWh delivered and the customer is paid for kWh generated at a wholesale price. That’s the way it should have been all along and it’s pissing solar installers off because it makes the panel price offset near impossible to achieve.