Comment on Solar panels are gratis in my region. But 10× normal prices to buy. What’s going on here?
drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It smells to me like ‘you’ll own nothing and be happy’. Someone founded a company on the idea of ‘People have a good thing going, how could we exploit it?’
What happens when you want to exit the contract within the 30 years?
What if you want to sell the house, and the new owner doesn’t want this scheme? Do the panels move with you to the new place? Depending on how hard it is to get out of the contract, it may turn away potential buyers.
Lastly, I may be distrustful of every company, but… When the sun is shining at peak brightness, what’s the guarantee that you get to use all of it? Surely there’s some clever ‘load balancing’ programmed into that inverter… You will never know for sure, it’s not yours.
activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’ve not read the contract yet. Considering they include removal an reinstallation labor for free if someone renovates their roof, they theoretically might as well relocate them to another house when moving within their service area (which is constrained as well by the region of the green certificates).
Certainly you can buy the gear. Price per panel as they age is something like this:
If you want to exit the contract and return the panels, I have no idea. But since these prices seem to be heavily inflated to cover their labor, I imagine it’s quite uninteresting to return the panels.
All the boxes have LCDs. The 1st box shows the power generation. Then another box shows what of that you are consuming. I assume the original electric meter is still installed, in which case it might be possible to check the math.