A Scottsdale homeowner described how a $26,000 rooftop system cut punishing summer power bills to essentially zero. If the situation seemed too good to be true, that’s because it was, as the angry utility company ended up scoring the upper hand.
What happened?
The homeowner took to the r/solar subreddit and said they had panels installed on their 2,300-square-foot North Scottsdale house by Harmon Solar and paid cash to meet the cutoff for Arizona Public Service’s older net-metering rules at 12.9 cents per kilowatt.
“My electric bill went from high to zero,” they shared. That probably made a huge dent in the summer, which they referred to as “terrible.” Since it was a 20-year term, they were going to be swimming in the money, unless something changed. Unfortunately, APS wasn’t pleased.
“But then, years ago, APS complained to the Arizona corporate commission that they were making no money from people like us,” the OP revealed…