Subj : solar..they paid $80,000
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Apr 10 2025 00:50:00

RM> Actually it was set up with a contract with Ontario Hydro
RM> and all the power they made was measured and fed back into
RM> the grid and they were paid for that power

AA>Ah.. so no batteries.

Yes.. I have a friend with a smaller but similar system at his
cottage with no contract with the power company, actually he has
his system because he couldn't get access to the grid where his
place was located without paying to have underwater lines run to
his place at a cost of about $25,000. He could have easly afforded
it but he decided to go off grid out of spite..    B)

RM> It seemed like that was going to be super profitable since they
RM> were being paid per KWH more than 4 times what they had to pay
RM> for the electricity they bought.

AA>Is the contract still in play?

Yes, it was set up for (?) maybe 15 years? Hydro was paying them
more than 80 cents a KWH, but after a couple of years offering
that amount they dropped the payment to new contrats to around
30 cents/KWH. Since my sister feels she is losing money at her
rate the new people may be in for a rude awakening.

AA>I know someone who has such a set up too.  During the summer,
  >the results are very good!  But.. in the winter the returns are
  >poor - primarily because they don't clean the snow off the
  >panels!

She talks about how much her husband complains about cleaning off
the panels in winter so it sounds like they are trying to stay
on top of that. She's near Peterborough though so she's getting
weather that's similar to what you and I get.
(Her power is still out from that ice storm 10 days ago.)

Ha.. speaking of, I'm starting to think a lot of our recent bad
weather is my fault. I had a dental appoitnment (50 mile round trip)
last week, and that day we got 4 inches of snow followed by freezing
rain I had to drive through.. Then this week I had a follow up visit
and the evening/night before we got about 10 inches of new snow here.
I worried I'd be unable to get there and be charged a fee for the
cancellation since the plow that does this road didn't show up but
I decided to give it a shot and managed to slip and slide my way
out the 1/2 mile to where the city plow comes in to, but it was
fun, trying to keep my speed up dangerously high so I didn't get
bogged down on hills and curves in all that snow, but I did make it.
Makes me wish at times I'd gotten a car with 4WD though..  B)

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