I'm working on a couple of other posts, but figured that this was pretty timely information. Interesting read:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ratehike2-2008jul02,0,801347.story
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Very useful information, thanks for sharing your experience to inform others. Keep it coming, looking forward to seeing more details. Good Luck with everything.
I hope your total experience works out better than ours did with Advanced Solar Electric.
We were quite dissatisfied with the sales process used to secure contracts without providing full and accurate information to prospective buyers. In short their expected output and savings are significantly different than SCE.
Our salesman told us we had enough roof space to generate sufficient power to reduce our bill to about $20.00/mo. despite the existing pool solar panels. We shared electric bills with our salesman that indicated a monthly consumption of 1326 kWh. He advised their 22 panel system would be appropriate for the task.
Looking back on the process, we should have cancelled the contract when the site inspection was not completed within the 3-day contract window. We repeatedly asked for a written drawing of the proposed design to see if it would fit. Unfortunately, we never received any written documentation from Advanced Solar after the initial contract signing.
The only document we received came from Southern California Edison indicating the proposed system would only generate an estimated 464kWh per month. This immediately resulted in a phone call to Advanced Solar Electric to understand why SCE and Advanced Solar disagree on the energy production of the proposed system. ASE then advised we would need additional panels to achieve the desired output. I told him I was interested in increasing the number of panels to get to the desired 80% monthly usage level.
When Advanced Solar finally analyzed our site information we were told that there was insufficient roof space unless we removed the existing pool solar panels. Since Advanced Solar Electric was not able to deliver the originally promised system output without eliminating the existing solar pool panels, we cancelled the contract. After several written contacts, Advanced Solar Electric refused to reply, we have now written off our lost deposit.
I believe residential solar is still in its infancy and therefore consumers need to be extra diligent selecting a contractor.
Good luck with your installation.
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