gergg wrote:If you don't mind, can you give some details about how this works, out of pocket costs, etc...
With the SunPower lease, there's no out-of-pocket at all. You can prepay the lease, or make fixed monthly payments for 20 years. In our case, the prepaid lease would be paid back after 4.5 years. The monthly payment is maybe 3/5ths of our current electric bill putting us ahead from day 1. We're still deciding which way to go, but either way it's good. So, for twenty years, I get the benefits, and since they own it, they take care of all the maintenance and repairs. At the end of 20 years, you have the option of buying the system, or having them take it down...but the residual is so high that no one in their right mind would buy the 20 year old HW, so the plan is to tell them to take it back at the end of the lease. According to the contractor, not even SunPower is likely to want the HW back so they are likely to simply offer the system to us gratis rather have to pay to remove it from our roof. But I'm OK if they do take it down.