That's an issue I had too. But my housemate and the installers talked me out of this (for now). I didn't even want much power, I just wanted enough to kick the spark on the furnace so that the heat will work. I don't care about the TV or even the fridge (I'd mostly miss my router, I think. Heh.). I just wanted my pipes to not freeze.
But currently that drives the cost way up. I was disappointed, but not enough to avoid the rest of the benefits. My other fear is that waiting would have lost the opportunities for the current tax benefits. These are big currently, but they may expire and not come back, and that was a larger concern to me.
(To explain some backstory: I was interested in the city plan when the survey first came out, and then because I never saw any follow up, we went ahead and committed to a regular installation with a local provider anyway. So I won't be participating in the city version, but I am interested in working with other neighbors on solar and I hope we'll form a community of folks with shared issues, like a club or a network, for future things like potentially doing the battery or switch stuff should that become more cost-effective.)
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Date: 2015-10-16 06:04 pm (UTC)But currently that drives the cost way up. I was disappointed, but not enough to avoid the rest of the benefits. My other fear is that waiting would have lost the opportunities for the current tax benefits. These are big currently, but they may expire and not come back, and that was a larger concern to me.
(To explain some backstory: I was interested in the city plan when the survey first came out, and then because I never saw any follow up, we went ahead and committed to a regular installation with a local provider anyway. So I won't be participating in the city version, but I am interested in working with other neighbors on solar and I hope we'll form a community of folks with shared issues, like a club or a network, for future things like potentially doing the battery or switch stuff should that become more cost-effective.)