PV Gap

Courtney Said:

time till a solar panel pays itself off?

We Answered:

the Department of Energy has a ' solar hours calculator" for locations around the US factoring in hours of sunlight.....the other factor is how perpendicular to the sun the panel is.....as a wild guess I'd say Buffalo's solar hours factor is about 3....which means as an average over 365 days you get 3 hours a day of maximum ( 150 watts ) output. So 3 x 150 x 365 = 164.25 kWh a year.

At, say, 15 cents a kWh, you're making $24.63 a year worth of electricity.

See why the houses of upstate New York..let alone Ohio or Virginia or Georgia.....aren''t covered in panels?