Originally Posted by
bombermwc
The companies we looked at, the rates were just too high even with that 12k payment. The ROI was still going to be like 15-30 years depending on what you made your rate. And all that was without battery capacity so you couldn't actually runt he house on the solar, only feed back to the grid. Yes, my OG&E bill would have been next to nothing, but i would have still been paying just as much in the loan payments and would have still missed out on the actual benefit of running off-grid. So we stopped in the tracks there. They all seemed to have the same offerings with only minor price or warranty differences.
The industry is still definitely stacked against solar, but I am seeing a lot more of it than I ever saw before. So people are definitely interested and are so pissed at OG&E that the rate is worth it to them.
I still don't understand how generation is not part of the cost of doing business. Why should we continue to have to pay more and more and more so many times a year (dont get me started on securitization) and then it's still not enough? 20 years of plant building and wind building and we're still not done. Haven't even touched the Mustang plant yet. But the Corporation Commission will, as always, just give them the rate increase and move on.
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