03/26/2017
Anonymous
My advice to anyone shopping for solar is get a second opinion! We ended up paying $24K and then getting tax incentives (2K, state; 7K federal) to make it about $15K out of pocket. Our initial estimate was from a real flashy company Solar One ($34K, for a smaller, over-designed system). We even had a third company Solaroo (who gave us a decent quote and said they would beat/match any other quote we got). We went with New Star Solar because we trusted them, by giving us an honest estimate of what we would need and how much it would cost and we had a great experience with New Star Solar. We have been installed and going for a few months now. You will find (if it is not immediately obvious) that the amount of solar energy produced varies greatly from month to month. Our first complete month was January. February doubled January's production and March is well on its way to double February's, so we have seen the difference it can make to our energy bills already (~$80 -> $17). We are going to see the real savings in the summer months, though, where RMP's pricing tiers cost us $150-$300/month in June-August 2016 (!!!). New Star Solar coordinated everything, so our installation went smoothly. They even prepped all of our tax paperwork with instructions, so we had everything we needed to get our tax incentives. They look pretty cool too. We feel proud of our purchase.