If you installed solar +/or wind, what do you wish you had known? If you're thinking, what questions

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7. This is an option I want

I want a lease option because leasing can include and/or minimize support/maintenance costs. Overall it makes it more predictable and frees me of the obligation to have to fix things.

I also want it because I believe that if local electrical providers (most of whom are NOT generators) would start providing this option they would see that there is a vast new market for them to tap into that closes the loop with their customers and cuts the cord on their suppliers. A lot of co-ops are nothing but electrical brokers - they buy electricity and maintain the infrastructure but they don't generate the electricity. By leasing to their customers these small providers become generators reducing demand and lowering their own costs.

If I install my own system it will be because I want to play with it. But if I just want a system to work for me and provide a benefit to the environment, I would be thrilled with a lease option.