The Solar Industry is Dominated by Scams
Here Is What To Avoid.
The large national solar companies have business models that are designed to take all of the financial benefits of solar for themselves while turning their customers into long-term dependents. They hide their intentions with millions of dollars of sophisticated marketing, complex contracts and sneaky user agreements.
Do your family a favor; read all the way to the bottom. Most people do not know these facts.
Grid-Tied Solar
99% of residential solar systems in the USA are Grid-Dependent. 95% being Grid-Tied and the other 4% having limited grid-down function BUT being controlled remotely by a corporate or private for-profit entity. This includes, but is not limited to, all solar-lease agreements, all PPAs and nearly all customer owned solar systems.
Grid-Tied solar systems automatically shut down when the grid goes down. When the grid goes down for any reason, from a branch on a powerline a mile away to a full-blown national emergency; if you have a Grid-Tied solar system, your power will shut off. You can have 10kW of solar panels in direct sun, but your furnace, your well-pump and your refrigerator will be dead.
Grid-Tied solar systems rob the user of the most important benefit of a residential solar system: the safety and security that comes with Individual Energy Independence.
The solar companies and the utilities have their marketing teams and their lobbyists fighting for long-term control over you.
Choose real Energy Independence for your family.
Solar Leases and PPAs
Solar leases and PPAs (Power Purchasing Agreements) are scams. The large solar companies are not so much in the solar business as they are in the predatory lending business. Let's look at the largest solar installer, SunRun for example, they are publicly traded and many of their financial numbers are publicly available.
Their own statements say that each install is worth 40% over their cost. Since this is valued in today's dollars, the cost to the customer over the long term (usually 20 years) is much higher. The customer will probably pay about 200% of the cost of the system, get zero tax incentives and still own nothing.
As bad as this is, it is not the worst part.
These companies will also sell the energy out of your batteries!
They will sell the power out of your batteries, just when you need it the most: whenever the grid is failing!
And why not? After all this is when the wholesale price of electric is the highest, as much as 500 times higher than what you will ever be paid per watt.
This statement is found on SunRun's website, under "Grid Services":
"Sunrun can discharge fleets of home batteries when called by our utility or transmission system operator partners to offset net customer load, deliver system capacity, and lower wholesale power costs."
If you think you will do any better with these companies by skipping the lease and PPA, and just buying their system outright... think again.
Each system is built around a computer-controlled power inverter. These inverters run on proprietary software that require you submit to a "User Agreement" and maintain an internet connection. If you run their equipment, you are their "subscriber".
You can own the hardware, but you cannot own the software. They will still do what they want: you "agreed" to their terms.
Be disgusted, but don't be surprised. Look who owns all of the national solar companies: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and the other World Economic Forum (WEF) members.
These ARE the people who told the world: By 2030 you will own nothing.
The world is being re-ordered, get prepared, get Energy Independent.