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They must be doing the opposite! ;)

I work in energy management and we look at everything to do with electricity. Currently we?re installing solar at some of our sites and I was part of the team that did the financial viability analysis, calculating paybacks, etc. As I stated before, I calculated the above factoring in a FIT...

And property prices are going to fall by 40%! Most panels come with a 25 year warranty, but even if they failed after 10 years, you'd be well ahead.

I'm working in the field. Let's do the calculations. We'll assume you get 4kWh/day/kWp and pay 28c/kWh. And let's say you're using 70% of your generated electricity and get a FIT of 8c/kWh and the price for a 5kW system is $6k. So it's 6000/(5*365*4(0.7*0.28+0.3*0.08))=3.74 years. Not ages in...

Read Mr Money Mustache. He can be a little bit over the top at times, but just pick the things you like, there's plenty of good stuff on his website.