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Originally Posted by summer_gphib

We actually looked into it-- but after talking to a friend of ours who has been in real estate for many years, we decided to not move forward. She had told us that she'd never seen a house with rooftop panels that didn't have roof damage from the installation. And being that we are in Florida, solar is very popular here, so she's seen a lot of it.
It also wouldn't save us any money for a long, long time. The price of the panels would be almost exactly what I'm paying for my energy bill now. And I still have to pay Duke Energy a monthly fee. (A small one, but still annoying.)

Here in Cali, solar is very popular due to electrical rates being high (PG&E raised their rates a lot due to the wild fires and law suits). However in sunny Florida, solar is not. I was told that the Florida energy companies do not want solar power so they set the electrical rates very low so that it's almost impossible to recover the cost of installing solar. My South Florida condo electrical bill is about $45-50 a month (summer time) and that's running air conditioning too.