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Solar is simply the best place to invest your money, here is why:
% RETURN ON INVESTMENT INCREASES EVERY YEARDoing something for the environment or saving money on your electricity bill is great, but... just how good an investment is it?
When you view a solar power system as a place to invest your money, you will see that in California, there is almost no other investment that will match it.
Consider the following typical example:
Invest $42,000 in system on the roof of your own home.
Under average conditions, you will receive a rebate check of about $10,000 within 6-8-weeks and a tax credit of $9,600 next April, or immediately as a grant. After rebates and credits, your total investment will be $22,400.
The value of your home will increase in value of at least the value of the investment, but is likely to be far more than that, due to the increase in cost of installation as rebates decrease; which effectively means that your principle is secure.
The system in this example will generate about 9,600kWh per year, which will save over $2,400 in the first 12-months. This represents a return on investment of over 10%. Now consider the following:
The graph above (click here for view of larger graph) shows the percentage return on investment every year over the first 15-years of ownership, assuming an average electricity bill increase of only 7%.
If you were to project the equivalent return over 25-years, which is the low end of the expected useful life of the system, you will find a 100% ROI after about 8-years, a 200% at 13-years, 300% at 17-years, 400% at year 21 and 500% at year 23. You will receive an equivalent tax-free return of 600% in 25-years. That’s $133,000 for an investment of just $23,000.
You cannot get as good a return on your investment with such a low risk ANYWHERE ELSE!!
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