Breaking the mold in solar power

February 21st, 2007

This is interesting news. I know I am certainly going to check into this since I would love nothing more than to have solar panels on my next home. Depending on what these costs actually are it sounds like it may be a better option. The cost compared to financing these things has to be much better, or it simply wouldn’t make any sense to me. Very, very good article on this after the snippet below about everrything this entails.

Start-up Citizenre thinks the solar power industry is ready for a radical new way of doing business: rent out panels, rather than sell them.The company has devised a plan that essentially would allow individual homeowners to lease solar electric panels installed on their roofs. That way, they would avoid hefty up-front costs–a perennial barrier to widespread use of solar power. Read more…