About a year ago, a postcard from
Sungevity, an Oakland-based solar sales company, ended up in our mailbox offering a free $500 iPad if you signed up for a solar lease with them. After a few bumps in the road and six months waiting, we finally got our solar panels installed last week.
The up-side is that it's a lease with NO upfront costs. Sungevity not only deals with all the permits and installation but also all the rebates and tax incentives. They also, free of charge handle all the maintenance.
The down-side is that it's a lease, so in the long run it's more expensive than if we had bought the system out-right. The lease is for ten years with no ability to add to the system or upgrade it as technology improves - so they say.
Sungevity uses subcontractors to do the installations.
Progressive Power out of Garden Grove did ours. It turns out, we could have done a lease through them as well. I don't know what the price would have been but at least we would have been dealing with a local company. But no free iPad!
Our inspection with LA County Building & Safety is tomorrow. Then we can watch our meter run backward!
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