degggendorf t1_iymcddx wrote
Reply to comment by GrapeRello in This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
It's also a bit counterproductive too; those trees are shading your house and keeping it cooler in the summer. Cutting them down for solar, you're generating power, but then turning around to use that power to cool your house that's now baking in the sun.
You'll still come out ahead, but imo there are better ways. Community solar and grid solar make way more sense to me...rather than putting expensive small arrays high up on roofs and removing trees from neighborhoods, put a big field of them on already blighted land. Cap off a landfill, cover it with panels. No one wants to live on a landfill, and there was no nature there before either. It's a win-win.
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