We installed a 35kw solar system 5 years ago. Cost $44k before any tax incentives. We have generated $29k worth of electricity at local rates. We bought 2 EVs and replaced propane heat with heat pumps. Total savings to date are $45k. 30% tax rebate brought our out of pocket cost to $31k. Finally, we live in a mountain valley, and our panels face east/west. Solar is a no-brainer sweet deal!
What company did you go with? Everywhere I have spoken to wants $100k for a 13kW system. I know I can buy 10.85kW worth of panels for $2,000 and inverter for close to that so I plan on a DIY approach.
@CWK09 I did it myself, as a licensed contractor, however, the $44k included all labor and materials. Contractor markups on solar are insane. Even 2x cost would only be $88k. Your material pricing shows this. We need more installations and more competition.
@@CWK09 I ran into more troubles with my power company then ANYONE else, Only because I was putting over the "120%" rule for my area, They said I only needed 11-12Kw to break even. So I had to prove to them I JUST got an electric car, wasn't enough. Then I had to "promise" (I already was in the middle of) I would change my NG items to electric. The first year it made 8400 back this past 4 months just over another 2K only because the price of electric went back down to 13 cents.
I live in North east India where during the monsoon period, it rains from March to October almost every day , still my 7 year old 5 kw solar system makes sense. Power my house , charge my EV and my electric Scooter. With a little bit of commonsense, Solar works.
Kim your guest interview and his knowledge really added to your content. Wow! He’s a hoot. Solar panels and solar batteries ain’t sexy, but TESLA figured how to make them sexy. Words to live by.
It blows my mind the USA hasn't more uptake of solar panels. In Australia a third of houses have solar panels and more added every year. Solar panels are amazing. Everybody should have them.
That's why knowing geography is important. You guys get way more sun then we do. Most of the northern part of of the U.S. is covered in snow in wintertime and don't get a lot of sun. In Florida and California it's understandable but in places like Ohio it's only about half the year to get great result's. Plus installation is very costly as well here in America.
@@Ohiostategenerationx Where I live and half of Australia is the same we get solar radiation 4.81kWh average per sqm per day. In Melbourne its 4.19kWh. Now compare to USA in New York its 4.72kWh. New Jersey is 4.9kWh. California is 6.1kWh. Australians mostly don't live in the desert. We live in the temperate areas. There's no excuse. And labour costs in Australia are MUCH higher than the USA. Our labour costs are nearing the highest in the world. Even our minimum wage is four times yours. Again there's no excuse.
Kim, please always do bloopers and bonus footage. Your personality is delightful and with bonus footage we get to see you even more engaging---and hilarious.
Haha great video and information! ❤ I have a model 3 in 🇨🇦. So cheap and saves me $500 a month in fuel costs. This guy is smart and entertaining. Thanks Kim ❤
We truly are at the epoch of solar prices becoming a realistic solution for a LOT more people. Especially if you build and install yourself. I have done it to part of my house (2 years ago) and it is dependably powering that part of my house 24/7. The batteries were the single biggest expense but they are dropping in price every single month due to the demand going up.
This “issue” with the power generation down around noon used to happen with me. It happens that the voltage around this time was very high and the inverter shut down for protection. I just changed the power limits and it stopped since then. I have growatt inverters.
Put in solar 2 years ago and have gone through 3 hurricanes. Milton was pretty much a direct hit. No issues we had power in the day when everyone else was out of power for a week. I am adding batteries to have power in the evenings during an outage. That will not happen to us again. Then again a cyber truck would work the same, but the wife hates the look of them so not yet.
How did you have power during the day without batteries? I thought most solar inverters won’t work without sensing power from the grid so that it won’t back feed during an outage.
What a fun person and I need some of his enthusiasm! I first put 4kWh solar panels on my east facing roof in 2011, then in 2020 added another 4kWh to West facing roof and added a Tesla Powerwall. Over the year it helps me average 80% cheap rate electricity, so 2599kWh from daytime rate and 10784kWh from night time cheap rate. I have an EV that I charge overnight and our home is fully electric with an ASHP. I am also in the UK and we seem to have a lot of cloudy days!
I had a hunch that solar panels as a roof could work but never saw it, but this proved that it could work! Guy was absolutely entertaining too! Great interview 🙏👏
0 maintenance but looking at how much shade is on those solar panels seems he’s got a lot more work than he thought… utilities don’t buy buy at that price. I heard it was only .02 cents per kw. Maybe it’s the dam solar guys in my area and their contract jargon
Might not hit for some, but totally get some Michael Keaton vibes breaking through with this guy. He ain't Batman... nor is he Beetlejuice... but some homesteading-hippie-farmer version right in the middle. Haha!
Thanks for fun informative video. He’s lucky to have a utility permit that is paying him so much for his excess electricity. Here in Seattle we get pennies on the dollar and I think the new permits going forward get zero. My son and I each have a home Solar system plus we have a rental with solar. We clean them twice a year and I feel like we get about 2% boost for cleaning. There are TH-cam demonstrations that show a 20-30 increase in production if your panels are really dirty.
Why does the Gun Smoke character Festus, come to mind watching this video? But I love it when TH-camrs think blurring out a car license plate is a privacy thing, when everyone on the road can see the plate number. Yet, they will show pictures of their home, spouse, kids and say what city they live in. lol
You should see shit show I’m dealing with right now involving the police and lawyers relating to a license plate. Correct your plates are seen by everyone on the roads, but you fail to realize that once you’re public (online) you are easily a target. I’ll just leave it at that. After almost 60 million views on this channel, you can imagine it only takes one moron to make blurring worthwhile. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@ItsKimJava I get your concern about it all. Hey, so when are we going to get Summon? You guys said in a previous video that v12.5.2 has it but that's not true. My Model Y is a year old now and it still doesn't have Summon. It gets frustrating when we buy a product from Tesla and it takes them forever to give us what we paid for. And I wish Elon would tone down and focus. I'm losing faith in him and Tesla.
When did he add the powerwalls? Looks like Powerwall 2. If he was one of the first to get them it would have been 2016. So 8 years of powerwall and 14 years of solar?
Research shows that supercharging doesnt degrade - going to low (80) is what kills these batteries. Staying closer to 50% is even better for making li ion batteries last.
Love it! I wish solar power were on all of the buildings. May be wind power also, where appropriate. It’s nice to see him powering his EV with 100% clean solar energy. He has a good sense of humor too. Thanks.
Why use burning light bolbs❓❓❓ All mine and most people i know here use led ones, look like normal bolbs but only take 2 to 15 watts(15 watts do 20k lumens).
The subsidies are only if you are tied to the grid. Screw that. But even if that wasn't the case there should be no subsidies for any of it. The federal government doesn't have this Constitutional authority and the government should not use tax policy to social engineering and push agendas. Besides taxes are un-Constitutional and at worst there should be a flat tax.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but how is he paying at a rate of 5 cents for electricity? Where does he live? I know San Diego is expensive but I didn’t realize how much more. In San Diego, we are at least paying 26 cents for delivery during super off-peak PLUS another 6 cents for generation PLUS addl taxes and fees.
Ah, I see from another comment that he is in Georgia. But is 5 cents correct? Is that the actual total? I hear neighbors and other people boasting about their rates, but they don’t take both delivery and generation rates into consideration.
Yes. Solar system and EV is a legit investment that provides returns in 4-5 years in most of the world. And after that point it literally puts money back in your pocket.
Many have tried without much success. The problem is, at peak, it's too much and degrades the cells faster, and other times it helps a little, but it's too difficult to get the reflection spread evenly on the panel. With panels as low as 50¢/watt it's more cost effective to just put more panels on.
Bahaha this would never work in Hawaii. We pay $0.21 during the day and $0.47 at night... and we probably have more tesla electric cars, solar, and powerwalls than most places compared to US.
Broke even around year 9. You could have doubled that 17.5K to 36K in almost any investment in the stock market. That would be about 500K if you chose NVIDIA. Just a thought.
He did not just lick his hand to clean the panel, wipe, and then relick the same finger to wipe more I’m dead!!! 😭😭😭 prob tasted like 10 year old dirt 😂 you were pushing it with the first hand lick to begin with my guy 😭😂😭
I love his enthusiasm, but I'm sorry, he's too eccentric for my liking. You can down vote me on this comment, but more often than not, a more subtle approach is a better way to sway people's opinion.
Yeah does not care is fine. But it aint 90% - he is a rich dude who can't or wont count. Eg. Bad example. Solar is awesome ❤ not just in his property and It's fine,c he doesnt care.
If you invest in solar and do what this guy did, you’ll be laughing just like he is. Watching people look at solar systems like a UFO is funny, and then they hear what their electricity bill is and they are envious.
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We installed a 35kw solar system 5 years ago. Cost $44k before any tax incentives. We have generated $29k worth of electricity at local rates. We bought 2 EVs and replaced propane heat with heat pumps. Total savings to date are $45k. 30% tax rebate brought our out of pocket cost to $31k. Finally, we live in a mountain valley, and our panels face east/west. Solar is a no-brainer sweet deal!
Cool! Thank you for sharing
What company did you go with? Everywhere I have spoken to wants $100k for a 13kW system. I know I can buy 10.85kW worth of panels for $2,000 and inverter for close to that so I plan on a DIY approach.
@CWK09 I did it myself, as a licensed contractor, however, the $44k included all labor and materials. Contractor markups on solar are insane. Even 2x cost would only be $88k. Your material pricing shows this. We need more installations and more competition.
@@CWK09 I ran into more troubles with my power company then ANYONE else, Only because I was putting over the "120%" rule for my area, They said I only needed 11-12Kw to break even. So I had to prove to them I JUST got an electric car, wasn't enough. Then I had to "promise" (I already was in the middle of) I would change my NG items to electric.
The first year it made 8400 back this past 4 months just over another 2K only because the price of electric went back down to 13 cents.
@@dizzlethe7346 13cts?
We are here at 35ct and they call it cheap...
Everybody that knows this guy must feel blessed. What an amazing fun character, sharing his love of life.
Dude is an absolute solar reality show rock star 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
I live in North east India where during the monsoon period, it rains from March to October almost every day , still my 7 year old 5 kw solar system makes sense. Power my house , charge my EV and my electric Scooter. With a little bit of commonsense,
Solar works.
I love this!
Kim your guest interview and his knowledge really added to your content. Wow! He’s a hoot. Solar panels and solar batteries ain’t sexy, but TESLA figured how to make them sexy. Words to live by.
I love this guy. Haven’t watched your videos in a while. But if you guests are like this guy, i needa start watching again.
14:45 Love that I can set departure time on my Chevy, so it finishes charging just when I want to leave. All automatically.
He is SUCH a character. I feel like he must make so many friends everywhere he goes.
It blows my mind the USA hasn't more uptake of solar panels. In Australia a third of houses have solar panels and more added every year. Solar panels are amazing. Everybody should have them.
Republicans associate solar panels with the devil apparently. Doesn’t help they keep hating on electric cars.
That's why knowing geography is important. You guys get way more sun then we do. Most of the northern part of of the U.S. is covered in snow in wintertime and don't get a lot of sun. In Florida and California it's understandable but in places like Ohio it's only about half the year to get great result's. Plus installation is very costly as well here in America.
@@Ohiostategenerationx Where I live and half of Australia is the same we get solar radiation 4.81kWh average per sqm per day. In Melbourne its 4.19kWh. Now compare to USA in New York its 4.72kWh. New Jersey is 4.9kWh. California is 6.1kWh. Australians mostly don't live in the desert. We live in the temperate areas. There's no excuse.
And labour costs in Australia are MUCH higher than the USA. Our labour costs are nearing the highest in the world. Even our minimum wage is four times yours. Again there's no excuse.
@@nhand42 ok then you pay for everyone's installation then.
@@Ohiostategenerationxit’s all about regulations in the IS which have doubled the price of solar installs for Americans. Nothing to do with geography.
Your guest is energetic and makes for great entertainment!
Да, гость просто огонь! He so expressive and funny!)) I like his sense of humour! :)))
Kim, please always do bloopers and bonus footage. Your personality is delightful and with bonus footage we get to see you even more engaging---and hilarious.
Love this guy’s enthusiasm for life.
Haha great video and information! ❤ I have a model 3 in 🇨🇦. So cheap and saves me $500 a month in fuel costs. This guy is smart and entertaining. Thanks Kim ❤
Great video Kim. That dude is hilarious. Very likable, you should have him on more.
very cool setup!
Bifacial solar panels on raised ground mount arrays paired with lithium batteries make going off grid a no brainer these days
We truly are at the epoch of solar prices becoming a realistic solution for a LOT more people. Especially if you build and install yourself. I have done it to part of my house (2 years ago) and it is dependably powering that part of my house 24/7. The batteries were the single biggest expense but they are dropping in price every single month due to the demand going up.
Not to cast shade on the solar, but there is a whole lot of shade on those panels...😂
he knows but doesn't really care given it offsets almost everything regardless.
Lol agreed but I know the struggle, I want both trees and solar, it can be hard to get perfect!
This “issue” with the power generation down around noon used to happen with me. It happens that the voltage around this time was very high and the inverter shut down for protection. I just changed the power limits and it stopped since then. I have growatt inverters.
blew his mind at the end of the video with the cybertruck info aha
Put in solar 2 years ago and have gone through 3 hurricanes. Milton was pretty much a direct hit. No issues we had power in the day when everyone else was out of power for a week. I am adding batteries to have power in the evenings during an outage. That will not happen to us again. Then again a cyber truck would work the same, but the wife hates the look of them so not yet.
How did you have power during the day without batteries? I thought most solar inverters won’t work without sensing power from the grid so that it won’t back feed during an outage.
Ahh, Kim…this guy is great! Thank for the update video. 😊
You bet!
What a fun person and I need some of his enthusiasm! I first put 4kWh solar panels on my east facing roof in 2011, then in 2020 added another 4kWh to West facing roof and added a Tesla Powerwall. Over the year it helps me average 80% cheap rate electricity, so 2599kWh from daytime rate and 10784kWh from night time cheap rate.
I have an EV that I charge overnight and our home is fully electric with an ASHP. I am also in the UK and we seem to have a lot of cloudy days!
I had a hunch that solar panels as a roof could work but never saw it, but this proved that it could work! Guy was absolutely entertaining too! Great interview 🙏👏
0 maintenance but looking at how much shade is on those solar panels seems he’s got a lot more work than he thought… utilities don’t buy buy at that price. I heard it was only .02 cents per kw. Maybe it’s the dam solar guys in my area and their contract jargon
Interesting to hear the electricity rates from where he lives in Georgia. They are almost exactly what my Time of Use Rates are in Wisconsin.
I didn't know Jim Cramer was into solar .
Awesome thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
This guy is hilarious. Living the actual dream.
As always ❤❤❤From Norway
Wonderful with American subsidies... No such luck in UK.
This needs his own youtube channel
Very nice Video Kim!
I have Tesla solar and Powerwalls but I really want that canopy you made that is really cool
Very cool interview. You have to go back after he gets his cyber truck "Battery" to see how that is working for him.
Might not hit for some, but totally get some Michael Keaton vibes breaking through with this guy. He ain't Batman... nor is he Beetlejuice... but some homesteading-hippie-farmer version right in the middle. Haha!
don't know how this guy manages the shade he gets on his panels.
Thanks for fun informative video.
He’s lucky to have a utility permit that is paying him so much for his excess electricity. Here in Seattle we get pennies on the dollar and I think the new permits going forward get zero.
My son and I each have a home Solar system plus we have a rental with solar. We clean them twice a year and I feel like we get about 2% boost for cleaning. There are TH-cam demonstrations that show a 20-30 increase in production if your panels are really dirty.
Why does the Gun Smoke character Festus, come to mind watching this video? But I love it when TH-camrs think blurring out a car license plate is a privacy thing, when everyone on the road can see the plate number. Yet, they will show pictures of their home, spouse, kids and say what city they live in. lol
You should see shit show I’m dealing with right now involving the police and lawyers relating to a license plate. Correct your plates are seen by everyone on the roads, but you fail to realize that once you’re public (online) you are easily a target. I’ll just leave it at that. After almost 60 million views on this channel, you can imagine it only takes one moron to make blurring worthwhile. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@ItsKimJava I get your concern about it all.
Hey, so when are we going to get Summon? You guys said in a previous video that v12.5.2 has it but that's not true. My Model Y is a year old now and it still doesn't have Summon. It gets frustrating when we buy a product from Tesla and it takes them forever to give us what we paid for. And I wish Elon would tone down and focus. I'm losing faith in him and Tesla.
I was thinking same, but based on Kim’s tone, it’s a real problem. Maybe an attorney can explain what law is broken.
When did he add the powerwalls? Looks like Powerwall 2. If he was one of the first to get them it would have been 2016. So 8 years of powerwall and 14 years of solar?
👀@~9:.. he mentions 2017 for PW install...with Hannah Solar & Tesla Reps🗽
Guy has such a positive energy.
Hey KJ , its the Tesla guy in Canada Excellent presentation/you tube by u and your client. Tesla Rules with Kim Java
1:04 well, my first recommendation is don't have them completely covered by shade. You'd think in 15 years he would have figured that out
Research shows that supercharging doesnt degrade - going to low (80) is what kills these batteries. Staying closer to 50% is even better for making li ion batteries last.
That’s a great tip to keep in mind!
This guys😂 he is totally an fun package 🤣
great video! 🎉
first lie no maintenance you have to clean the panels at least once a year 2 is better depending on pollen and such
Omg! So much shade on his solar panels!
install and forget, that would be awesome for EVERY tech (but that's not maximizing profits :(
That gentleman has a heck of a nice property. Love the stone on the house.
Love it! I wish solar power were on all of the buildings. May be wind power also, where appropriate. It’s nice to see him powering his EV with 100% clean solar energy. He has a good sense of humor too. Thanks.
This guy needs his own tv show.
that guy looks a whole lot of fun
Any issues ? Half the solar is shaded in the background. To me that is inefficient.
If you really want to screw the Man, do a DIY power wall for way cheaper
Amen. Hack that system.
He missed the offer to transfer free supercharging for life to a new Tesla
Why use burning light bolbs❓❓❓
All mine and most people i know here use led ones, look like normal bolbs but only take 2 to 15 watts(15 watts do 20k lumens).
The subsidies are only if you are tied to the grid. Screw that. But even if that wasn't the case there should be no subsidies for any of it. The federal government doesn't have this Constitutional authority and the government should not use tax policy to social engineering and push agendas. Besides taxes are un-Constitutional and at worst there should be a flat tax.
Is there still a 35% tax credit in Georgia??
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but how is he paying at a rate of 5 cents for electricity? Where does he live? I know San Diego is expensive but I didn’t realize how much more. In San Diego, we are at least paying 26 cents for delivery during super off-peak PLUS another 6 cents for generation PLUS addl taxes and fees.
Ah, I see from another comment that he is in Georgia. But is 5 cents correct? Is that the actual total? I hear neighbors and other people boasting about their rates, but they don’t take both delivery and generation rates into consideration.
Yes, years ago GA. pwr. offered low nighttime rates...heard were as low as 1.6¢ originally 🤔He explains at 4:...
Wow, your rates are ridiculous! That would make solar a great idea, except Cali probably regulates it to death.
That’s what communism gets you…
Solar panels ruin roofs I heard.
IM A SOLAR INSTALLER AND RETAILER. TELL YOU STRAIGHT UP MOST OF HIS PANELS ARE SHADED ALREADY FROM THE INTRO. NOT A GOOD START
I'm not an installer, but I noticed it too. Crappy install, or just way too many shade trees. Cut those back and triple the power, at least
When Mr Joy meets Ms Sunshine in Musk's Neverland ✨
Nice and funny guy make it very entartain
Yes. Solar system and EV is a legit investment that provides returns in 4-5 years in most of the world. And after that point it literally puts money back in your pocket.
Does install mirrors to reflect sun lights to solar panel help to improve solar efficiency?
Many have tried without much success. The problem is, at peak, it's too much and degrades the cells faster, and other times it helps a little, but it's too difficult to get the reflection spread evenly on the panel. With panels as low as 50¢/watt it's more cost effective to just put more panels on.
Bahaha this would never work in Hawaii. We pay $0.21 during the day and $0.47 at night... and we probably have more tesla electric cars, solar, and powerwalls than most places compared to US.
That was a video
Broke even around year 9. You could have doubled that 17.5K to 36K in almost any investment in the stock market. That would be about 500K if you chose NVIDIA. Just a thought.
Developers developers developers developers energy 🎉😂😅
Snow load in Georgia? That can't be that much.
He could generate more power if he changed the overhang to bifacial panels.
No garage?! Great miles.
What a hoot he is!
If backfeeding was retro fitted in 1st gen model s he could charge the model S for free at the supercharger and fill up his grid with it 😂
He did not just lick his hand to clean the panel, wipe, and then relick the same finger to wipe more I’m dead!!! 😭😭😭 prob tasted like 10 year old dirt 😂 you were pushing it with the first hand lick to begin with my guy 😭😂😭
So I had "Girl Math" without knowing I had it 🧠
"Windas" - Sorry, I just love the accent lol
For the table, I'd love to enter a charity raffle for it, or maybe donate it to a veteran or women's shelter?
This guy is hilarious.
Kiiim 😃
We buy for 1.7 cents kW!
A lot of his solar panels are shaded by the trees. I don't think he's really using those solar panels.
Lots of shade on his panels.
Solar is amazing power wall not so much.
Cut back some of them tress, dude.
Don't buy the cyber truck.
70% of us are living on ss living check to check or working 2 jobs to feed the kids. GET REAL
Jeff goldblum xerox
nice guy
I love his enthusiasm, but I'm sorry, he's too eccentric for my liking. You can down vote me on this comment, but more often than not, a more subtle approach is a better way to sway people's opinion.
First comment! ♥️👊🏾👍🏾
hmmm.....
LOL!
Maintenance free 😂, don’t you need to clean the solar panel every 6 months depending where you live? This guy is full of lies
Yeah does not care is fine. But it aint 90% - he is a rich dude who can't or wont count. Eg. Bad example. Solar is awesome ❤ not just in his property and It's fine,c he doesnt care.
If you invest in solar and do what this guy did, you’ll be laughing just like he is.
Watching people look at solar systems like a UFO is funny, and then they hear what their electricity bill is and they are envious.
Mine crypto to get payed back faster
This guy is creepy
Wow!!