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RE: Our system would have a battery, no mention was made of

Posted by PAR on March 18, 2017 at 05:14:12:
" we're not buying the system, it's all free, w/guaranteed reduction in electric bill, but not total reduction, on a 20 year contract."

Be careful when you are offered something free and get tied into a very long term contract.

We have had a number of mis-selling scandals in regard to solar panels over here in the UK. At least one of which involved free panels where the supplier turned out to be taking all of the subsidies from the government and/or payments from the grid (there's no such thing as a free lunch of course). In addition in some cases the panels were cheap Chinese ones, not the promised German ones, which did not produce the savings promised. Meanwhile the consumer was left with a remaining 15-20 year contract. Their only way out was to pay thousands to get the panels removed and terminate the contract.

I hope that it all goes well for you and that installers in your part of the world are more honest than some here.