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LIVE WORDPRESS INDEXBy Mike | electrician & Solar Installer I’ve wired hundreds of homes and installed enough solar systems to know the difference between marketing hype and…
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The most common question I get when homeowners start looking at battery backup is: “ How many kilowatt-hours do I actually need?” And every time,…
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Every few months something shows up in the solar forums that gets people genuinely excited. Sodium-ion batteries are that thing right now. The headlines are…
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Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I thought power outages were just part of life — a few hours, maybe a day, then back to…
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A Year Ago I Said I Was Done With Solar Decisions When the solar system. I’d already published my first-year ROI numbers and...
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The Question I Didn’t Ask Before Going Solar When I bought my solar system 14 months ago, I was focused on panels and production numbers.…
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The Question Every Solar Owner Eventually Asks When I started seriously researching battery backup for my homeownerhome, one of my first stops was a hands-on…
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I want to tell you about the conversation I had with my neighbor Dave, eight months after my solar install. There was a grid outage…
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Six months after my solar install, I bought a used 2022 Chevy Bolt EV. I want to be clear that I did not buy it…
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Time-of-Use Electric Rates: How I Gamed My Utility and Cut My Bill 40% I want to be careful with the word “gamed” here, because what…
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What Solar Salespeople Don’t Tell You: My 6-Month Research Deep Dive I’m a mechanical engineer. I spend my days analyzing tolerances, running failure mode analyses,…
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Every solar salesperson will ask your average monthly bill. Two companies gave me the same usage estimate and came back with systems differing by four…
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