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Originally Posted by greglepore View Post
Yeah, even assuming you went with a small steel building, with sitework and a big enough concrete pad you'd be looking at 25k or so just for the building. A big enough solar install with batteries for nightime would easily be another 30-50k. You'd also need to maintain electric service for cloudy days.
I like the idea, but its more like a 60k investment to offset a fair amount but not all of the electric bill.
This is even more evident since you need a return on your investment in a decade or less (all things being equal).
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