I just finished watching a video interview of a professional solar panel installer. He explains the process of getting set up with residential solar panels step by step. I like the last step best:
“Watch your meter start spinning backwards.”
Some of the other steps made me uncomfortable, like the one where you give SolarDave a big chunk of money. The process of obtaining permission from your local government sounds like a bit of a hassle as well. In the future, people in the solar power industry are hoping to see some standardization of the approval process. As things stand, the time and cost involved in getting a permit to put residential solar panel on your roof is all over the map.
There is a whole other layer of bureaucracy if you want your system to be tied into the grid.
One way for do-it-yourselfers to avoid some of the bureacracy is to put the solar panels someplace other than their roof. Using them in a closed off-grid system simplifies things even more.
Thermal solar panels, the ones used to heat residental water, are said to pay for themselves in less than ten years. Heating water with electricity in one of the biggest inefficiencies in the modern home. A solar water heater will save your family $6 per month per person and reduce your carbon emissions by 3 tons per year.
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