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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JR777" data-source="post: 4024564" data-attributes="member: 45725">Everyone is doing it, in states where they penalize you for not doing, and reward you if you do do it. In california, you almost can't afford not to.In states like Oklahoma where energy is extremely cheap to begin with and there aren't really any incentives to speak of, best case scenario you're paying your electric bill 20 years into the future.Which isn't such a great deal because we're on the cusp of several game changing technologies that will dramatically reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of solar. Thin film panels that will be cheaper and more efficient than current commercially available roof panels, solid state batteries that will last virtually forever, and molten metal batteries that will make a distributed grid possible (and potentially eliminate the need for home batteries to begin with). There's a very real possibility that the cost to go solar could be cut in half over the next few years. It would be a shame to get on the hook for a 20 year system when there's no immediate incentive to do so, and then have something come out five years from now that would be half the price.</blockquote>