The Home-Solar Boom Gets a 'Gut Punch'

I couldn't make solar on my house pencil out unless the risk-free rate was 8%, I paid for the whole thing in cash, and electricity prices went up 5% a year. I didn't even bother modeling panel decay at that point.

California has the stupidest energy policy I have ever seen. And their PUC has some of the most corrupt people on it.

It seems like California’s low wholesale electricity prices during the day are what victory looks like for solar. Time to do something else? Battery backups in rural areas would lessen dependency on the grid. [1]

I don’t know how to reconcile this with high retail electricity prices, though.

[1] example: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/green-mountain-power-vermon...

I'm not sure what it's like nationwide, but here (Houston area), the sheer annoyance of door-to-door solar sales really puts a sour taste in many's mouth. I'm decidedly pro-solar, and I despise every one that knocks on my door, as they're pretty much all dishonest and deceptive.

My goodness, there's a lot of bat-sh*t-crazy wrongness in the comments, like almost all are directly and demonstrably wrong. Are they paid shills or real people actually that fact-free in other aspects of their life?

But that's why I don't read comment sections in newspapers.