David's 13.135 kW solar installation in Ottawa, Ontario

0:00hi uh my name is David we've lived in our family home for 23 years I'm a musician by trade uh raised our four

0:07children here for 23 years I chanced upon solar thought well let's just check into it and see what the cost is given

0:15the 0% for 10 years loan and the rebates that were available it was like a no-brainer we actually talked about it

0:24about two decades ago large uh back roof was perfectly situated for so panels if

0:30ever we wanted to go solar the amount of energy we are already producing even since the beginning of March is well

0:39more than we consume so we figure we're going to be uh net metering well over our usage I just wrote a quick email I'm

0:48interested and before I knew it I got an email more than my usage estimated with this mockup and the cost factors and the

0:56breakdowns with and without a heat pump I have to say Z was fantastic uh the project manager was terrific it's

1:04actually not that honorous and it's worth the trouble the people I spoke to where all professional knew exactly what they were talking about and there was no

1:11pressure I was like yeah you could go ahead with this if you want everybody was professional and courteous and

1:18cleaned up after themselves it was all actually a pretty pretty much a dream construction job so one of my favorite

1:26features is this the solar Edge app and so far we're at even on this cloudy day 30.9 kwatt hours today 2.6 megaw which

1:36is pretty astonishing that's not even two full months and we're at over 1,300

1:43per month which is 100 more than sort of our highest month previously through the summer months it'll be longer days and

1:51maximizing power production so every time I see the sun now I I have a different relationship with it estimates

1:59conservatively that I just uh increased the value of my house by 5% so far I'm completely satisfied once they got going

2:07it was done no they were they were very professional the whole time well I'm showing my kids that my kids I'm showing

2:15my adult children that we can make a difference and we can do just our little bit maybe it's just making a tiny dent

2:22there is always solutions to problems that was a big player in my decision because of the 0% 10e loan

2:30plus the rebates it really paid for us to put in the the the heat pump and and

2:38the solar panels it's like easy decision I would recommend solar panels to anyone we can now use some electric heating

2:47maybe mean we won't have to use our gas powered furnace you pay once for the

2:53solar panels and then you're covered like you have all the energy you need it's really an easy decision

3:00if if the next owner comes along they they won't have to put the solar panels on themselves we're really glad with the

3:07results and the process was easy