KellyDood
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Yahoo 'sniffed' my browsing and linked me to ad about leasing solar panels - anyone heard of this?
https://www.homesolarprograms.com/li/quotes/
https://www.homesolarprograms.com/li/quotes/
Leasing solar panels
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I have been contacted for a similar promotion.
Basically this company make profit by installing PVs on your property,
so they have free rent of space, and selling your solar energy to the grid.
You get pennies for the electricity generated and you cannot store it.
Then at night you paid full price for it.
After 20 years you might inherit the PV, which will be cheaper for the
leasing company to give them away to you than to have to remove them.
But also, after 20 years the PVs would need to be replaced anyway
with more performant ones.
This was a valid model in the past, but with the lowering cost of both
solar panels and batteries, if you can DIY this would certainly make more sense.
Basically this company make profit by installing PVs on your property,
so they have free rent of space, and selling your solar energy to the grid.
You get pennies for the electricity generated and you cannot store it.
Then at night you paid full price for it.
After 20 years you might inherit the PV, which will be cheaper for the
leasing company to give them away to you than to have to remove them.
But also, after 20 years the PVs would need to be replaced anyway
with more performant ones.
This was a valid model in the past, but with the lowering cost of both
solar panels and batteries, if you can DIY this would certainly make more sense.
Rednecktek
Solar Wizard
Waste of time and money. You're renting solar panels from a company that is selling that power to the utility. The company gives you a SMALL cut of the revenue, and at the end you're lucky if you get to keep the panels, but you DO get to keep all the holes in the roof!
No power at night, and things are heading more and more towards paying you less per Kwh generated than they charge you per Kwh, so net loss all the way around.
No power at night, and things are heading more and more towards paying you less per Kwh generated than they charge you per Kwh, so net loss all the way around.
KellyDood
New Member
Ha, thanks. Win-win for them! 
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