Pros and cons of buying solar panels; The investment return and savings that can be made by buying solar panels varies more by city and utility in Texas than in any other state in the country. This is largely due to the fact that Texas’s electric utilities are deregulated, making it possible for people in most cities to choose which retail electric provider they want to use. This causes a lot of variation in the types of solar incentives available for the people of Texas.
Pros and cons of buying solar panels
Pros and cons of buying solar panels; In some cities like McAllen , San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Brownsville , Harlingen and Weslaco an upfront utility rebates are abundant. 1-for-1 net metering programs offered by providers create a great environment for homeowners to install solar. These incentives, coupled with the 30% solar tax credit make it plausible to pay back the cost of the solar system installation in 8 years or less. What that means is that over the course of 8 years, you will have saved as much as you paid for the system.
Pros and cons of buying solar panels in other cities, utilities and providers do not offer upfront rebates or 1-for-1 net metering. The payback for systems in these areas can take up to 15 years. But we have broken this barrier with new technology that stores the energy rather than sending it back to the grid at a lower cost. Call our design team for details.
This is a reference of the customer service at American Made Solar:
“This week I attended a meeting with a potential commercial client. The sales representative was in the meeting as well. It is important for me to attend these meetings to assure nothing is over promised, everything that is promised is on the contract and assure it is executed by the completion of the project.
My presence provides a satisfaction to the clients that they are being listened to and respected. When I am unable to make these meetings, the next day after a sale closes I give the new client a call. I present myself and who I am. By this point I have reviewed the contract with the sales representative. In this call, I go over it with the client and answer any questions they may have. I want to assure all the questions the client has are answered, and if any questions at any point come up, for them to be confident in calling me to ask“.
If you are interested in installing solar panels on your home, we recommend that you get a quote from a local solar company in Texas, you can get a free quote from us here.
Microinverters
A few months ago, I posted the following article about microinverters.
While microinverter companies still claim to have a better solution than string inverters, the USA is still one of the few countries that use them. Kaco pulled out of the US market , knowing microinverters are not a good solution for rapid shutdown and power control. And believe me, Germans are practical. While SMA (yes another German company) still prefers to add a Rapid Shut down system rather than to place any electronic equipment in the worst place possible, behind a solar panel.
In theory they remain loyal to their claim: You can monitor each single panel production by website. And its true! But a good installer knows better than install panels pointing west, east and north or doing installs that just wont work.
Sure, all companies will replace the microinverters that fail (which I have seen failure rates on the field of up to 30% in less than 5 years of usage).
But they don’t disclose that the installer will charge to replace the inverter. And that’s is coming from the end user pocket.
Lets face it. The technology is still not there.
But hey, we still believe it will be there one day. And we support research.
We offer our customers no charge to replace a microinverter. BUT notice we wont recommend a microinverter system when a string inverter system can be used.
Interested in installing microinverters? Do your homework and research how many countries besides the USA use them. You will see the impractical defeats any good theories.
I am all up for protecting our firefighters, but there are better methods of disconnecting solar arrays than microinverters. And as for monitoring, in our company we offer guarantee of production. We dont let the customer worry about which panel produces and which one wont. Thats our job!.
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