Monthly Fee Solar Panels

On average rooftop solar arrays are around 5 kilowatts in size.

Monthly fee solar panels.

The utility has been charging a 5 per kilowatt monthly fee. Subscribing to solar allows customers to go solar without the higher upfront costs of purchasing a solar panel system. Evergy officials say the demand charge is equitable because non solar customers in the company s. The fee is based on the size of the solar system so a five kilowatt system would have a monthly fee of 25.

For an average 5 kilowatt rooftop solar system the fee results in an additional 300 charge per year or approximately 9 000 over the. The psc also approved alabama power s request to increase the fee from 5 per kilowatt per month to 5 41 per kilowatt per month. Demand fees can sometimes run to nearly 100 per month and wipe out most of solar system s savings. The average solar panel setup for a home costs about 10 000 according to the.

While that doesn t sound like a lot of money. That s 20 a month thorne says. That amounts to a.