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The only good thing about this, is that I won't have these annoying solar companies knocking on my door. Not that this news is great. We should promote green e
by avgDev 1y ago
The only good thing about this, is that I won't have these annoying solar companies knocking on my door.
Not that this news is great. We should promote green energy.
I will just get the panels and do it myself.
- dawnerd 1y agoOh I they’re still going to be knocking. Their sales pitch here has already shifted.
- glenstein 1y agoI do think solar companies have hired door to door marketing teams that use straight up manipulative tactics. I don't want to hold that against the whole industry, and even sales reps for many solar companies hold themselves to a much higher ethical standard. But some states have had to push regulations because door to door marketing teams have misrepresented who they are, used pressure, and tried their best to imply without saying that a "switch" to renewable energy was non-optional or was like some technical correction with a billing problem.
- potato3732842 1y agoAround here the door to door sales are always a pair of college age floozies with pairs seemingly selected to cover fluency in multiple languages. Based on the quality of sales tactics I assume it's some sort of BS pyramid scheme because nobody who would make money by having them succeed would ever send them out so un-prepared. I kinda feel bad for them.
- avgDev 1y agoI have researched several companies which knocked on my doors. All of them have accusations online of scammy behavior and not really passing the benefit of the grant. I was told I would get "FREE SOLAR". At least in the midwest, when I hear solar, I hear scam. I would much rather purchase equipment myself and do the install myself.
- pirates 1y agoThis matches my experience in the midwest as well. “Let me see your bill real fast”, “you pay nothing up front”, “you can get 4% extra value at resale” All of it is a scam. I head these people off early if I see them walking around my neighborhood.
- rkomorn 1y agoThat's sad. When I had a company come by in California, they did the math on my house and bill and said "actually in your case this would never pay off, sorry" and moved on. Although this was probably 10 years ago, so maybe it's changed now.
- glenstein 1y agoIf you're knowledgeable enough to know how to do the installing, you'll save the money that way too. I feel like it's the community solar that's probably the worst offenders, they build it, you effectively rent the generation capacity, but ideally the cost of the electricity you get back is more valuable than what it cost you to pay your rent. I still think everyone should believe in it as a value proposition, and as as a way to balance risk from grid instability, but I would like better information about who is reliable and who the bad actors are.
- opwieurposiu 1y agoIf you are Serious about DIY solar I made a whole site about how I did mine with a calculator and graphs, etc. https://www.pvh2o.com/ https://www.pvh2o.com/
- Workaccount2 1y agoThis is excellent! Thanks!
- avgDev 1y agoI am serious! Nice resource.