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Burgundy Goes Green

Ron Burgundy

Ron Burgundy

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Me and Mrs. Burgundy are having solar panels installed on our house sometime this summer.
Our average electric bill is $150/mo, good ol' Duquesne Light and I don't even have whole house A/C, solar company is guaranteeing us $125/mo for 25 years, by then I will be dead anyway.
This was greatly helped by the fact that we just got a new roof a year and a half ago.
Panels will only be on the back side of the house which catches so much sun that on a hot day you can hardly touch the inside door knob on the back door.
I just wanna know why I have all sorts of mandated energy saving appliances and light bulbs, yet my electric bill keeps going up.

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ZonaBurgh said:
My concern with these panels is what happens when a new roof is needed? Freak hailstorm could wreak havoc.

Good that your roof is new.
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We have a 25 year guarantee on the solar panels and the roof both.
If your roof is over so many years old they won't install solar panels unless they do the roof too.
They said the solar panels will void the roof warranty, we had 30 years, but they give you 25 years on the roof.
 
Honestly roof panels are a great idea... no idea what they will do with all the toxic cells when the things finally wear out, but on a personal basis, it makes sense...
there are all kinds of issues with the larger scale stuff, but house by house its good in most areas.. just dont get cheaply installed ones, lol...

With data centers eating up all the generated power and obsolete fossil fuel plants being shuttered rather than refurbished or replaced, the cost of power is only going to climb
 
Can you route the power thru your house or does it all go to grid?
 
Confluence said:
Can you route the power thru your house or does it all go to grid?
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Powers my house during the day and the excess goes to the grid and I get credit for it. Then at night I get power from the grid that uses up the credits.
I'll get a two-way electric meter that measures what comes in and goes out.
My next-door neighbors got solar panels three years ago and they like them. I'm thinking it's a prudent move with all the AI data centers that will be built and jack our electric rates. We just lost western PA's only road race track, Pitt Race, to become a data center. They made the owner an offer he couldn't refuse.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Powers my house during the day and the excess goes to the grid and I get credit for it. Then at night I get power from the grid that uses up the credits.
I'll get a two-way electric meter that measures what comes in and goes out.
My next-door neighbors got solar panels three years ago and they like them. I'm thinking it's a prudent move with all the AI data centers that will be built and jack our electric rates. We just lost western PA's only road race track, Pitt Race, to become a data center. They made the owner an offer he couldn't refuse.
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A legit offer or the old school offer?
 
Out here, law suits are flying around because the solar companies are all going under, so the warrantees and such are useless. Also, some people have been paying money for coverage to companies that no longer exist, and now some are wondering where those funds have ended up.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Powers my house during the day and the excess goes to the grid and I get credit for it. Then at night I get power from the grid that uses up the credits.
I'll get a two-way electric meter that measures what comes in and goes out.
My next-door neighbors got solar panels three years ago and they like them. I'm thinking it's a prudent move with all the AI data centers that will be built and jack our electric rates. We just lost western PA's only road race track, Pitt Race, to become a data center. They made the owner an offer he couldn't refuse.
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That'd be great....you could install some in house battery backup in case they decide to rate you because of more power to the race track.
 
Confluence said:
That'd be great....you could install some in house battery backup in case they decide to rate you because of more power to the race track.
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I asked, the battery backup cost over $10,000.
 
I've considered looking into this as the backside of my house pretty much faces due west and gets all kinds of sun. I think my big concern would be leaks in my roof, but I have no clue how the panels can actually be mounted.
 
Stainless said:
I've considered looking into this as the backside of my house pretty much faces due west and gets all kinds of sun. I think my big concern would be leaks in my roof, but I have no clue how the panels can actually be mounted.
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No doubt the technology has improved, but 40 years ago I placed solar panels on my roof strictly for the hot water tank. Scalding water in the summer months. Big, enclosed copper tanks that looked like scuba tanks when I took them off about 10 years ago. The roof did suffer, but the new panels are pretty light from what I understand.
Good news is the copper tanks recycled for a chunk of change.
 
ZonaBurgh said:
No doubt the technology has improved, but 40 years ago I placed solar panels on my roof strictly for the hot water tank. Scalding water in the summer months. Big, enclosed copper tanks that looked like scuba tanks when I took them off about 10 years ago. The roof did suffer, but the new panels are pretty light from what I understand.
Good news is the copper tanks recycled for a chunk of change.
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There are also pretty good free-standing options now, if you have the room.
 
How much in total will your solar system cost? What kind of roof do you have on your house……asphalt ? I’ve been in the construction field for according to my body a 100 years it seems. But I’ve kind of missed out onthe solar panel system phase. Are there still some government incentives for installation?

I’ve always thought our weather in Vancouver is pretty close to Pittsburgh weather. We have dark gloomy days in winter where we don’t see the sun for ages it seems. When I would think we would want the solar power the most,for heat of course. So how does this affect the system if you don’t have batteries to store the power?

Pittsburgh and area actually get a lot more snow than Vancouver,what happens when you got a **** ton of snow on your panels,or worse with a rain freeze cycle,ice then snow? Does someone have to get their *** up there to clear it off? Can the panels hold that type of weight? These are actually genuine questions that goes through my brain when I see a house with the panels on.
I was talking to a good friend of mine who owns a big roofing company. He said the worst thing is getting calls after some of these companies install the system with of course no idea of how a roof works. Damaging membranes,drilling through and throwing on a dab of caulking etc,etc. of course a leak never shows up right away,happens after the installation and payment.
Finding the leak can be a nightmare with all the panels and then access from a roofers perspective. And of course the home owner expecting all this done for next to nothing.

I was watching a high end house being built close to my beach walk. They put on a beautiful metal roof,and had aluminum brackets coming off the facial boards. They then put an aluminum grid attached from board to board about 12 inches above the roof and attached solar panels to them. So that it looked like the panels were independent and accessible. They even put what looked like access points to put safety gear and ladder hook ups to safely get on to the paneling. There was a big shed close where obviously they had a battery storage unit. All I could think of was how much this must have cost. And would they recoup that in their lifetime of energy savings and selling the excess energy.

Last time I traveled through the countryside of Germany by train I was shocked at the amount of solar panels you could see on residential housing.

I certainly don’t discourage solar. And I am the first to hate over regulation and government involvement ,but I sure hope there is some type of watchdog in place for all the fly by nighters that will setup shop and gladly take your money and disappear.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Powers my house during the day and the excess goes to the grid and I get credit for it. Then at night I get power from the grid that uses up the credits.
I'll get a two-way electric meter that measures what comes in and goes out.
My next-door neighbors got solar panels three years ago and they like them. I'm thinking it's a prudent move with all the AI data centers that will be built and jack our electric rates. We just lost western PA's only road race track, Pitt Race, to become a data center. They made the owner an offer he couldn't refuse.
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Did it involve a horse's head in a bed?
 
ZonaBurgh said:
No doubt the technology has improved, but 40 years ago I placed solar panels on my roof strictly for the hot water tank. Scalding water in the summer months. Big, enclosed copper tanks that looked like scuba tanks when I took them off about 10 years ago. The roof did suffer, but the new panels are pretty light from what I understand.
Good news is the copper tanks recycled for a chunk of change.
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You know tvs have color now?
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Me and Mrs. Burgundy are having solar panels installed on our house sometime this summer.
Our average electric bill is $150/mo, good ol' Duquesne Light and I don't even have whole house A/C, solar company is guaranteeing us $125/mo for 25 years, by then I will be dead anyway.
This was greatly helped by the fact that we just got a new roof a year and a half ago.
Panels will only be on the back side of the house which catches so much sun that on a hot day you can hardly touch the inside door knob on the back door.
I just wanna know why I have all sorts of mandated energy saving appliances and light bulbs, yet my electric bill keeps going up.

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Man I have to pull the trigger on this . Have been contemplating for years
 
I wouldn't let some yahoo penetrate my roof to mount panels. Leak city.
 
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