Kinn's 14.175 kW solar installation in Ottawa, Ontario

0:00my name is Ken 36 years old from Auto Ontario um work with software engineering uh originally from Brazil

0:07moved to Canada 10 years ago actually 12 years ago Hydro costs were actually increasing I figure it would actually make sense to put up the solar panels

0:15and you know take advantage of the exposure that we have right here so I do have electrical Vehicles so that kind of contributed to my Net Zero uh usage on

0:23my vehicles as well explaining to me how many panels I would actually need uh to be able to uh to meet a 90% % go of my

0:31actual total bill um just made the the the choice much much simpler for me they helped me quite a lot but also allowing

0:39me to understand all the possible options I could actually put up on my solar panels to allow me to produce more energy and how long it would take for

0:47them to pay out as opposed to the competitors that were not explaining anything to me um that was definitely the advantage it was so smooth that the

0:54experience was almost zero non-existing they literally put up the the ladders they went up to my roof and they install without making any noise without

1:02requiring me to be there at all uh so I was literally on my regular work day and by the end of the day all the solars were the solar panels that were up and

1:10running on my my roof already so was pretty seamless no challenges at all so that was also part of the smooth experience um not only they didn't

1:19require my attention during installation process um everything went smooth according to the plan if there was any

1:26challenges I would say that was with uh Auto Hydra cuz they went a nice strike but other than that uh from Zar itself

1:34everything was smooth um they install the panel they configure the things on my phone and I was monitoring the production by the end of the day so not

1:41a big deal so by being able to use the two electric cars and pulling energy all the way from the solar panel that was to me the most selling point so the process

1:50within the government is not so much transparent to be fair uh however solar uh Zar does help us a lot with that uh

1:59not only with uh filling the forms but allowing us to understand which companies to contact to get the inridge program and what not on explaining what

2:08the government should actually be explaining in regards to the overall system no major issues to be fair actually no issues at all so there's

2:17plenty of advantages I think people just need more education I understand also people don't understand the separation between having a solar panel and a

2:25battery pack they think you always need a battery pack which is not the case yeah I'd say it doesn't really matter uh

2:33how higher a bill is you can always find a system that suits your need so as much as the government is financing $40,000

2:42you don't necessarily need a $40,000 system uh so yes uh doing the basic math I'm going to be consuming uh much much

2:50less than what I was consuming before uh so the expectancy is that I will be reducing my bill by 90% um by the end of

2:59the the the calendar year but now with the big Sunshine uh I'm producing around 95.5 kilowatt hour a day so I think I'm

3:08more than happy at this point in time