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n00bravioli t1_j82k0s0 wrote

Also curious! Definitely the cheapest way to get a battery install in the short term, but you don’t own it at the end of the ten year term and there’s no option to buy (at least from my reading of the lease terms). Over the longer term, financing an install from somewhere else and taking the GMP rebates seems like it could be a better deal…but maybe others have better insight on this?

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Real-Pierre-Delecto2 t1_j83qj1m wrote

> there’s no option to buy

I think they might just let us keep them. I was lead to believe that could happen when talking to HQ years back. It would cost them way more to have a crew come out and remove it and restore the wiring as it was. You might find if we sign a waiver or something they could just leave them in place. Crossing my fingers anyways.

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GreenPL8 t1_j859t3i wrote

In 10 years there will be a market to upcycle/recycle old batteries.

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Real-Pierre-Delecto2 t1_j863w7f wrote

Had our unit about 5 years now so who knows. I bet most people want it gone I would like to tinker with it though. Even if the batts were pretty diminished it would serve me well. It's the hour here and there when power goes out that it's needed to keep my boiler pumps and other stuff running. I have a genny for long outages.

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