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1. Determine whether you have an ap
propriate site. “Your home needs an un
shaded or unobstructed roof facing south,
east or west,” says Rob Powell, of verde
energjicom, a network of renewable en
ergy professionals. You’ll also need an
average of6oo to 700 square feet of roof
space for an electricity-producing sys
tem. A thermal system, which heats the
home’s water supply, or a pool-heating
system requires 100 square feet.
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solar energy types and
prite tags, says Meagan t
Anderson, of Sun Tec- I
nics Energy Systems in 1
Sacramento, Calif. Most
people start with a solar
thermal system, which costs
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Solar - pool heaters average $5,000, pay
ing back their cost in three years. A typi
cal 5-kilowatt photovoltaic (PV) system,
which generates electricity, costs about
$40,000 and generally pays for itself in six
to 12 years.
3. Examine your current utility bill, says
Adrienne Henzmanr., of the Florida Solar-
Energy Center. If you’re paying 15 cents
per kilowatt hour or more, then installing
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PV is a cost-saving option. The website
pvwatts.org has a calculator that can tally
your savings.
4* Hook up to a utility. Net metering ar
rangements allow the PV system to send
excess electricity into the utility grid.
“The meter will actually run backward,”
says Rhone Resch, president of the Solar
Energy Industries Association. Check to
see whether your power company
credits customers for any ex
cess power they produce.
PV systems make sense in
Help your
home tap into
the sun's natural
ing the most expensive
time of day peak power
—you’re selling surplus power
power.
into the grid at retail prices and draw
ing from the grid at off-peak prices,”
Resch says.
5. Get some money back. Federal tax
credits, state rebate programs and util
ity company incentives can shave 50% or
more off the price tag, Resch says. The
website dsireusa.org maintains a compre
hensive database of incentives for using
renewable energy. C 3
Mary Forsell
places where electricity
rates vary throughout
the day. “Because PV
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