Comments on: How Much Are You Allowed To Over Produce With Your Solar Panel System? [Video] http://www.solardave.com/index.php/xcel-120-rul/ SolarDave: DIY Solar Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christof http://www.solardave.com/index.php/xcel-120-rul/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Christof Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:41:51 +0000 http://www.solardave.com/?p=824#comment-754 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. 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.

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