I would love to have a solar PV array but I still can't get the numbers to work. I am too poor to have a $30,000 solar energy hobby.
That is is the big problem with solar. In many places the numbers do not add up. For example, I am on hydro power so I pay $0.09 per kilowatt. Since I am in the middle of a rain forest, I have to deal with clouds, trees, mountains, just to say I am a pround owner of a solar panal, I am looking at an 80 year payback just for the cost of the panels. Just like business, location, location, location is the key.
Right across the Wrangell Narrows from me, the folks over there do not have hydro power just portable power (geneartor) so they have to transport fuel and such which adds up. I am in the process coverting and upgrading several govt sites up here to solar. Beteeen location, the logistics of getting stuff there and these sites are only used in the summer months makes the number works.
