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To: TimF who wrote (45153)	12/23/2013 7:17:57 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Tim It just depends ultimately on your grid power costs. Here in the Seattle area it's fairly cheap. In Eastern Washington it's the cheapest in the country. Chelan and Grant County's PUD's charge roughly 3 cents per KwHr. That's very cheap! They own their own dams on the Columbia river. But over in Hawaii it's expensive.. I have a couple engineering friends from the old days that retired over there. One of them is on the Big Island. Power there is close to $.32 per KwHr. He was going to build a house about a mile off the road. After factoring the cost to drop power to the house (which would have been around $25,000) he dropped the idea and went solar for 100% of his electricity and hot water. He does have a wind turbine too. He figures the system will be fully paid off in about 3 years without any tax credits. You also have to look at the cost of utility power in the long run. It's not static. Eric