Great Investment
With the extensive federal & state government rebates and incentives, Solar is actually cheaper than everything else.
While everybody gets a 30% tax credit from the Federal government which is great on its own.
However, there are lucky residents in certain municipalities who are eligible for additional rebates that can make Solar
so inexpensive that its return on investment will exceed 99% of mutual funds or virtually any other potential investment in the long term.
Check out
this government site for estimating solar returns and plug in your own numbers.
If you can get your system for a low price, as you will with Prontia, the ROI gets even better.
Energy Independence
Because we need so much energy American foreign policy is affected.
The more self-sufficient our country is the safer it is.
The more dependent we are on foreign oil (even if it's our dear friendly neighbors to the north) the more vulnerable we are to interruption of supply or worse.
We urge you to research, through whatever websites you already trust, the following issues:
1973 Oil Crisis, 1979 Energy Crisis, and especially Peak Oil.
More info from the Dept of Energy
Good for the Environment
Solar energy creates virtually no pollution and so is the cleanest energy in existence.
Installing solar panels on your home or business can reduce your energy use so greatly that it's the equivalent
of taking thousands of miles of driving off the road and tons of pollution out of the atmosphere.
- Solar is silent, as opposed to noisy wind turbines
- Solar creates no dangerous radioactive waste unlike nuclear energy
- Solar doesn't use water unlike biofuels
- Solar doesn't hinder marine life unlike hydro-electric dams
- Solar works now unlike "drawing board ideas" like geo-thermal or hydrogen or the farcically named "Clean Coal"
- Solar isn't dangerous unlike combustible and noxious natural gas
Help push technologies forward
Solar currently enjoys unprecedented outstanding rebates and incentives because federal and state government
has recognized the value of getting Americans using solar.
Maybe you're familiar with the term "economies of scale" which states that as a business gets bigger with
more customers the less expensive the product will be to produce. Like "buying in bulk" materials are cheaper
and resources are maximally utilized.
Consequently, as solar becomes more prevalent it will become even cheaper.
It's what founder Dan Abrams has dubbed "The Solar Ceiling" meaning that as the cost of Solar drops
(as it has indeed consistently and substantially dropped over the years)
the other energy sources need to cut their prices or else go out of business.
Consider the future hypothetical: If you have the choice between two identical cars where one cost $1000 per year
to power and the other only costs $50 per year won't the former go out of business?
By buying solar now you encourage the future of solar and further incentivize progress and innovation.