<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Marc MERLIN <<a href="mailto:marc_mtv@merlins.org">marc_mtv@merlins.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Actually at least half the vendors I talked to had a leasing option where<br>
> you just buy electricity from them instead of PG&E after allowing them to<br>
> put panels on your roof.<br>
> In other words, you don't pay for the install and you pay them a flat<br>
> 15cent/Kwh or whatever the rate is, which is cheaper than tiers 3-5 from<br>
> PG&E.<br>
> The other good news is that the said rate will not go up, it'll remain<br>
> whatever it is forever, whereas PG&E is raising rates every year.<br>
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</div>Until the vendor goes broke from such a "forever the same price" policy<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Since the cost to the vendor is established at the same time as the rate that the customer pays I don't see this as a problem.<br><br>I'd be interested to see how it works in terms of ownership of the panels though.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Steve<br></div></div>