This answers what the Xcel 120% rule is.
This is my second round of interviews with John Shaw of Bella Energy in Louisville Colorado.
SolarDave: How Much Are You Allowed To Over Produce With Your Solar Panel System?
John Shaw:
How Much Are You Allowed To Over Produce With Your Solar Panel System? [Video]
Published: December 12, 2009Posted in: Video Projects & Interviews
Dave,
Thanks for this. I’m going to embed it — and credit you in big bold letters with a link back.
Of course, the big issue right now is:
a) electric cars are not available yet;
b) Xcel’s rebates are coming down.
So, you cannot buy the car and produce the receipt right now, and, while you wait for EVs to go on the market (Fall 2010), the Xcel rebates sink lower and lower — and you watch as your solar system costs rise and rise.
And, as I’ve noted in my blog entries at SolarChargedDriving.Com — http://solarchargeddriving.com, it’s not as simple as saying, OK, get a smaller system, then add on when you get the car. That’s because of the inverter/system size issues. If building out your smaller system requires an inverter replacement, you’re talking about a whole lot of money to do that — that you could have saved had the system been the right size to begin with.