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rangerrebew:
RADAR: Is it wise to purchase solar panels now?
 

From one of our correspondents.

Increasing feed-in costs and an end to the netting scheme have a huge impact on the payback period for solar panels.

Is it smart to purchase solar panels at this time? More and more energy companies charge feed-in costs to customers with solar panels. And that has a significant impact on the return time of solar panels, according to calculations that Radar requested from energy comparison companies Independer, Pricewise and Energievergelijk.nl.

The payback period can be up to 19 years.
Vandebron was the first energy company where you had to pay feed-in costs. The amount depends on the amount of electricity you supply back and is divided into scales.

But there are also other ways in which energy suppliers pass on the feed-in costs to the solar panel holder:

https://www.climategate.nl/2024/05/radar-is-het-verstandig-om-nu-zonnepanelen-aan-te-schaffen/

Smokin Joe:
I'm waiting for the fire sale...

cato potatoe:
We looked into it.  Hurricanes and roof maintenance make them incompatible, not to mention ugly.  A Tesla solar roof looks better, but it's also very expensive. 

GtHawk:
I don't think so in California, seems there is such a glut of solar power generated right now that utilities in the state have to pay other states to take the excess resulting in much lower payments to homeowners and business.

Bigun:

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Nope! Next question.

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