Bikramdeep's 13 kW solar installation in Brampton, Ontario

0:00my name is vickram we're a small family of uh four uh it's my wife Sonica who's a teacher I have a retail store in

0:08Bramton gura wholesale and uh two kids one 23 years old and the other is 15

0:15years old I was really impressed by this concept of going green and wanted to contribute a little bit to the

0:24environment to generate my own electricity in my house and be self-sufficient in that and uh help the environment and then the government

0:32incentive kicked in I got a loan from the government interest free over a 10year period which I gave to Zar

0:39essentially to get the solar panels and it all worked out I am literally generating electricity for my own

0:47consumption in my house now I'm recommending it to everybody else because it does work they were good in their time commitment they did exactly

0:55what they said they would do that that that was pretty impressive they stuck to the time lenses oh the installation process was seamless actually a few days

1:04before the installation a truck came to my house with everything guided them to the garage and once the stuff was in the

1:11garage then uh Chris scheduled the installation which was done I think a day or two something like that everything was seamless no problems from

1:19the stats that I have collected I have generated nearly 75% of the electricity usage in my house I'm pretty impressed

1:27with the solar energy that's being generated it'll be a good investment I do believe in climate change my little bit helping the environment whatever I

1:35could was approved like interest free over 10 years over a 10 year period 80% of the project is solar and 20% is

1:44approvals from the utility companies TSA and all the stuff so the 80% that Chris was responsible for he would give me

1:52exact dates and let me know what's happening and I appreciate that but the 20% there were delays but that's something I do understand it was beyond

2:01his control and he used used to explain me clearly that why it's beyond his control and why these things happen like this so

2:09Chris was very responsive in uh whenever I had questions about about the project follow your belief like I believed in uh

2:17solar so I just got done you have to make your own decision and solar is a good decision according to me first 10

2:25years I think I'm going to be breaking even with my investment but after that I just enjoy free electricity for something that's paid off with a very

2:33minimal cost after that it's the sun's energy that's being wasted kind of and you are harnessing it which is a good

2:41idea and uh yeah as I mentioned a leap of faith I guess