tacocat

I was skeptical as well. I interrogated the F out of the guy. And I don't have any long term data, but Liz and I were thinking if it saves anything that is a good thing.

If the house burns down, who pays for new panels? Vivint.

Will you ever for whatever reason make a claim against our homeowners insurance? No.

Here is the one weird thing. If you make more that you consume, you pay Vivint for the total you made. But you get credit for those extra KwH's. So lets say you make 1400 KwH in June, but only use 1000KwH. You would pay for the 1400KwH to Vivint, BGE bill would be 0 for that month. In August, say you still make 1400 KwH, but consumed 1600 KwH, you would pay Vivint for 1400 KwH, and still 0 to BGE (you have 400 KwH in the "bank"). You would have another 200 KwH banked for future months. Say you continue to bank consistently--at the end of the year, you get a check from BGE for those credits--at BGE current rates.

It's all fuzzy math, but it sounds like it may work. Like I said, if we save anything, it will be a plus.

WhrDLMI

I came up with 9.7 a year ago when we got our new HVAC (our thermostat has a feature where it will tell you how much the system is costing you to run but you have to tell it what you pay per KwH). I arrived at that number by taking the KwH we use per month and dividing it by the total we are being billed. I did this for the previous six months. When I averaged it out, it came to 9.7.

I just looked at our last three bills. The average there is 9.1. Yay for West Virginia coal!

WhrDLMI

I am super skeptical of the cost-benefit analysis. My take is that you more or less break even (barring something catastrophic) unless you really, really try to be efficient. Either way, though, you get the warm and fuzzies from doing good by the environment.

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tacocat

Now to work on my methane capturing device. I enough to heat the whole house.

WhrDLMI

Methane is also a very destructive greenhouse gas. Do your part, Zeke! SAVE THE EARTH!

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Gilly_S2KFreak

8 days until i'm married!

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