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   RM> Actually it was set up with a contract with Ontario Hydro   
   RM> and all the power they made was measured and fed back into   
   RM> the grid and they were paid for that power   
      
   AA>Ah.. so no batteries.   
      
   Yes.. I have a friend with a smaller but similar system at his   
   cottage with no contract with the power company, actually he has   
   his system because he couldn't get access to the grid where his   
   place was located without paying to have underwater lines run to   
   his place at a cost of about $25,000. He could have easly afforded   
   it but he decided to go off grid out of spite..    B)   
      
   RM> It seemed like that was going to be super profitable since they   
   RM> were being paid per KWH more than 4 times what they had to pay   
   RM> for the electricity they bought.   
      
   AA>Is the contract still in play?   
      
   Yes, it was set up for (?) maybe 15 years? Hydro was paying them   
   more than 80 cents a KWH, but after a couple of years offering   
   that amount they dropped the payment to new contrats to around   
   30 cents/KWH. Since my sister feels she is losing money at her   
   rate the new people may be in for a rude awakening.   
      
   AA>I know someone who has such a set up too.  During the summer,   
     >the results are very good!  But.. in the winter the returns are   
     >poor - primarily because they don't clean the snow off the   
     >panels!   
      
   She talks about how much her husband complains about cleaning off   
   the panels in winter so it sounds like they are trying to stay   
   on top of that. She's near Peterborough though so she's getting   
   weather that's similar to what you and I get.   
   (Her power is still out from that ice storm 10 days ago.)   
      
   Ha.. speaking of, I'm starting to think a lot of our recent bad   
   weather is my fault. I had a dental appoitnment (50 mile round trip)   
   last week, and that day we got 4 inches of snow followed by freezing   
   rain I had to drive through.. Then this week I had a follow up visit   
   and the evening/night before we got about 10 inches of new snow here.   
   I worried I'd be unable to get there and be charged a fee for the   
   cancellation since the plow that does this road didn't show up but   
   I decided to give it a shot and managed to slip and slide my way   
   out the 1/2 mile to where the city plow comes in to, but it was   
   fun, trying to keep my speed up dangerously high so I didn't get   
   bogged down on hills and curves in all that snow, but I did make it.   
   Makes me wish at times I'd gotten a car with 4WD though..  B)   
      
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