Do you want a $4500 money saving gadget for free? It sounds too good to be true.
Sure. Well, there’s a kind of green electricity where you can really save money and the planet Jeff Burnside has this exclusive story tonight going green report.
The 1980s, the old funky style, the old thinking. And that’s what many people think of those old solar panels sitting precariously on rooftops. That was then. It is now. The first solar tiles that look a lot like the rest like the roof.
Solar Panel Tiles
They are laid in panels that overlap like tiles.
The aesthetic is that it is a fully integrated system.
So now, instead of having that angled panel on your roof, you have something that sits built into the roof tile barely noticeable from street level.
And it really is a beautiful system as you can see.
This Boca Raton home receives the first installation of these tiles east of the Mississippi and the first to meet Florida’s highest hurricane and water standards.
The cost of solar tiles and the benefits
This medium-sized system that lasts 20 years costs $45,000.
Ouch. But look at this: the stimulus package pays you about a third of that at tax time.
Then the state pays $20,000 pending renewal of funding.
And remember that the electric company has to buy your extra electricity, which saves you around a thousand dollars a year.
Pay it off in ten years, and after that you make money.
So the more beautiful and cheaper these solar panels are, as can be done with DIY solar panels, movers like this will use them. And that leads to the solution of a much bigger problem.
How Solar Tiles Help the Environment
Already wants 3 more nuclear power plants, extremely expensive. And there are still the dirtiest natural gas and coal plants of all.
But each solar power system installed means less need to build those power plants, protecting the environment and our electric rates.
We are the state of the sun. We should feed the state of the sun with sun.