@Anthony Dooley
I appreciate your opinion Anthony, I will definitely consider that.
The plan is essentially that the entire house’s energy would be completely supplied by solar energy for MOST of the time. Of course though, there are times when the sun does not shine and the home battery could run out stored energy, so the conventional utility plan is there for more of a backup so that the house is not blacked out at any given time. When the system realizes that the panels are not supplying energy and that the battery is low, the system would turn over to utilizing energy from the power grid.
In other words, the tenant would have an extremely low monthly conventional utility bill and even possibly not have to pay anything for that month’s conventional utility bill.
The rooftop solar energy bill would likely be implemented directly into the monthly rent price and would go directly into the rental agreement; therefore only having one utility bill (if conventional power is even used that month).
This would not be imposed on an existing tenant: this is a potential plan for the future when solar panels are cheaper and this is priced out to be financially feasible.
Being in Florida, another potential advantage of this is that the solar panels could still be used post-hurricane, when the conventional grid is blacked out, to continue supplying power to the house. I know of people in Florida who had their solar panels survive Hurricane Irma and could continue supplying energy to their homes after the storm.
Of course, home solar energy is a location game; so the average profitability and return of using solar panels drastically changes depending on the exact state/city/location they are being used at.
