Imagine someone asking you to pre-pay all of your cell phone minutes for the next 18 years by purchasing a cell phone tower and installing it at home.
You may be saying, “It sounds expensive and complicated to me.”
It also might also make you wonder how many minutes you’re actually going to get and how much you’d actually have to spend keeping the tower working.”
Deciding to go solar isn’t much different if you’re thinking about purchasing solar panels and other hardware.
However, you can buy solar electricity only as you need it from a solar electricity system at your home without taking on the large expense and responsibility for generating years’ worth of electricity.
When SunRun provides its customers solar electricity they know how much they’ll get every year, how much it will cost and how much they’ll save versus buying from the grid. All of that, plus SunRun maintains and insures the hardware.
Our interests are aligned with yours. If we don’t build and maintain the best systems that produce the power our customers need at a good price, then we don’t make money. We’re all working to get electricity from cleaner sources. However, SunRun makes at least an 18-year commitment to produce green electricity. In that way our incentives are in line with a community’s need for more green electricity too.
Communities throughout California recognize that at the end of the day, the most important thing is to make green electricity easier to get and less expensive than the grid – not necessarily encourage everyone to get into the power business themselves.
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