Solar Array

I’m spending far to much time getting hung up on solar energy by the looks of it and 9 times out of 10 I end up being beaten back with the stick about its expense and time to recover investment and all your energy and motivation gets just sucked out of you HOWEVER there comes a little bit of information from time to time that goes a long way to helping pick you up again.

This gem comes from user mikebeavis over at the TreeHugger Forums.

” But wait! According to this page, France is encouraging the production of solar energy with a feed-in tariff. That means each kWh you produce is worth .30€ “

This is good news, well i mean GREAT news as this now means that every kWh that comes off the array is now worth more than double what it was producing on it’s own this drastically reducing the time for the array to repay itself to as little as 15 years.

The final thing to take into account is that most solar panels ( well ALL the ones i’m looking at ) come with a 25year warranty so that works out as a minimum of 10 years free power generation.