Salesperson/estimator Bruce Hargrave assessed the roof and produced an estimate days. He evaluated my electrical panel for code compliance. SSS installed on another house in Aberdeen last fall on Jeffries Street, three houses south of 6th Street.
Washington law says the Public Utility District will pay me 54 cents per kilowatt hour for what the thirty six 275 watt Washington manufactured panels produce through 2020. Payback time will be about 6 years. Normally, customers pay ~12.2 cents per kWh for the first 360 kWh and 8.5 cents per kWh after that.
Installers: Jesse and Sean. Jesse married one of Dr. Craig Teveliet's daughters and lives in Aberdeen, 3-4 houses from me. They don't work on Fridays, which makes for a decent lifestyle for their employees. Sean seems extremely capable. Job benefits? Not known.
Installation process: quick, on-time and courteous. Work looked clean. Post-install cleanup? No nails or screws littering the work site.
Flat roof installation. Both came inside the house to note the location of junction boxes for light fixtures to avoid installation damage. Both had shoe covers for use in the house.
The permitting process produced the only hitch. The city of Aberdeen placed their final inspection sticker without informing SSS. I came home from a 10 day trip to find the system not turned on. I probably missed out on >200 kWh of production during those sunny days. The system produced 85 kWh in 3.5 days (one very overcast day). During that period, I used 78 kWh.
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