At this point in a weather thread some PIA from CA/AZ usually makes the liquid sunshine remark, tells all he had the AC on today.
I had a guy here from "Solar City" here two weeks ago, wanted to put Photovoltaic grid on my "perfectly oriented" south facing roof. Like 800sq ft of it. Deal is, no cost for me, I pay about a 30% discount on E bill to them as opposed to Con Eddys 24 cents a KW . Actually a lease, 20 years, then I get to buy it. Sounds good today, but I'm 69, lifetime Guarantees and 20 year deals don't appeal to me anymore.
A positive is you do get juice backfed into the grid for later use, but he had no info on Battery storage, which I thought would be a selling point for his outfit. Obviously did not arouse my independant genes, as in just get a generator and inverter.
Electric Blackouts more frequent around here the past 10 years , linemen not that quick either nowadays.
I only need to power the oil Burner and circulator pumps, few small lights, and two refrigerators. Only.
Is this doable on Batts ?
Seriously, when is a major Automaker coming out with a hybrid with a 10K built-in generator > AC and DC ?
Bob W... single digits tonight, 12 in whiteness tomw..