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[rbodell]

I knew I liked you the first time I checked your web site Mr. Bodell, we think very much alike (caution, that may make some here not like you !!
Thank you, I love it when my sheer presence can affect peoples lives. It doesn't bother me if people dislike me, the less people that like me, the more time I have for the ones who do like me.

[Carlb]

Posted by: Carlb

I live in New Jersey and there are state subsidized incentives to install renewable energy.  We did our installs in three phases.  The first phase was 7kw the second phase was 3kw and the last phase was 11.2kw.

Hi Carlb,

I seem to be missing something, I don't see how you could amortize the install in such a short period. Especially with the output at 68 kwh, average per day (25,000kwh/365). How much is the rate for grid in your area, what did you do get a pennies on the dollar PV purchase, are you using inverter/battery, or is it inverter grid tye only?

Give us the gory details of your system...if it can be reproduced, it would be helpful to others

Thanks,

Lloyd

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Lloyd,

We sell back any extra to he utility when we settle up with them annually. We normally get about .07 per kwh. We really don't make any real money on the sale of excess electricity but we do make a substantial amount of money on the sale of the renewable energy credits that we acquire for producing "clean energy"  we produce about 25 renewable energy credits a year and the going rate in NJ right now is around 650 dollars each.  We purchased the solar panels @ 1.80 per watt and we are grid tied only no batteries using two SMA 5,000 inverters.

Carl