Just signed a contract to install solar for my house in Grass Valley, CA. Feeling virtuous!
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How did you decide what you wanted, and who to get it from?
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Mostly picked a local company that looks promising, then trusted their advice. Once I decided not to do a battery it got very simple; basically which kind of panel and how many of them.
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Replying to @nelson @Johannes_Ernst
Why'd you end up going with no battery?

Sep 8, 2021 · 2:21 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @Johannes_Ernst
Batteries are where I started! I needed something that could last 3 days for PG&E outages. The battery tech is just not there (would have been very expensive). So I got a generator. The solar is grid-tied and is purely to zero out my yearly power usage, not a backup to the grid.
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That makes sense! Up in PDX the longest I've been without power is about 6 hours so far. I can't imagine 3 days!
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