Food & wine writer, professional restaurant critic, and SunRun customer – Jim White – recently blogged about his experiences going solar with SunRun and Borrego. Here’s an expert of his post:

Yes, Green is the way to go these days and yes, installing a solar electricity system is good for the environment. Our tiny system will reduce our planetary CO2 emissions by nearly 22,000 pounds a year, which is the equivalent of not driving nearly 310,000 miles a year!

But nothing was a stronger inducement to “go solar” than this economic reality: I will get a 14% Return on my Investment (ROI) in the first year alone, a figure that will grow annually as PG&E rates raise.

Better yet: this is a 14% after-tax ROI, which means the investment to “go solar” repays the equivalent of about 20% in pre-tax dollars per annum. Try to get a 20 percent return in the stock market year after year! (In the economic swamp in which we find ourselves just now, 20 percent sounds mighty good; oh how I wish that ALL our investments paid off so handsomely!)

Check out the rest at http://www.napaman.com/napamancom/2008/09/honey-i-think-i-shrunk-the-solar-system.html. Thanks, Jim!

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