Solar Panel in Uros Island, Lake Titicaca - Peru
Solar panel rebate has been around for a while but the cost has been prohibitive – at least to us – until now. There has been an increase on the number of homes installing solar panels that the price has now become a lot affordable.
Last week, I walk into one of those supermarket stall offerring solar panel installations. Against my nature, I signed up. I would have normally research all of this – name all the different type of panels, outputs, inverters etc. Compared 5 different suppliers, but this time – I just said: Sign me up – when can you install it? That was last Saturday. (Don’t do what I did – as soon as I signed up, I found out that my neighbour paid substancially lower after agreeing to display an advert in his lawn. I would not have minded that.)
Anyway, the installer showed me how my electric meter is now turning the opposite direction. Instead of consuming electricity – we are now selling it back to the grid – cool! But to be honest, it would probably take 5 years before these panels will pay for itself in electricity savings. However – it feels good to think that if we switch on the dishwasher or the washing machine during the day – that we are using the power of the sun and not fossil fuel.
We also have a lot of appliances that are just connected to the power all day – computers, clocks, Foxtel, photo frames, tvs etc. Now, all their idle power drain comes from the sun – theoretically.
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