Did you know that you do not merely have to accept the payment terms included in a proposal from a solar panel installation vendor? Challenge them; they might surprise you. You will be paying them tens of thousands of dollars of your hard earned money. The past few days has seen us compare some of the details of five different solar panel installation vendor proposals / quotes we have received over the past nine months. We are doing this to help educate you on what you can expect … [Read more...]

We have written previously about some of our experiences with five different solar installation vendors and their proposals. When you are thinking of investing tens of thousands of dollars on a product, you really need to do your homework. Hopefully you can benefit from our experiences and be more motivated not to accept the first or second proposal you receive. So far we have written about differences amongst the five different solar panel installation vendors … [Read more...]

After receiving different quotes and proposals from 5 different home solar panel installation vendors over the past 9 months we thought you might be interested in any significant differences between different aspects of their approaches. Recently we wrote about the differences in these solar panel installation vendors approach when it came to providing references. I was surprised how much difference there was. References of the vendor's performance is critical if one is spending … [Read more...]

Is there a difference between quotes you receive from installers of solar panels under any government subsidized solar electricity home improvement plans? What about one such as the Ontario MicroFIT solar program where the rate you can earn for each kilowatt-hour produced by your roof top solar panel installation is fixed by a 20 year contract? Oh my, yes. It has been a long while since we wrote about our possible participation in the Ontario MicroFIT roof top solar panel program. In … [Read more...]