Leigh-Ann's 5 kW solar installation in Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario

0:00my name is Leanne I live out in uh the country uh grew up on a dairy farm uh so

0:07I am a farmer's daughter I was able to build my home that I live in with my uh husband Hydro

0:17bills it's quite common everyone's complaining about the price of hydro and I absolutely refuse to pay those monthly

0:24bills price of that I thought no I'm doing totally off grid there's just no way like my myself I I must have called

0:32six companies seven companies to try to get some prices Xolar was was one of them and with the price of what I needed

0:41for for my house and that it fit my budget it was relatively smooth uh I just kept seeing all this equipment come

0:49in I'm going holy holy I know a lot of equipment is required for it once it was all

0:55mounted um on my wall it was kind of like wow it's quite compact uh I've talked to a couple other people that

1:03have had solar or have it they were kind of surprised to see just how compact it is for what I've got that runs my house

1:12somebody's house goes out for power outage it doesn't affect me at all I have power whether you know my neighbors

1:20are out or whatever I still got power and when I was paying bills yesterday it's just like holy I got a pile of

1:29money left it's amazing how much money you can save when you're totally off grid my generator hasn't had to kick in

1:37so with the generator being my backup to charge my batteries sun has been has been really good as far as so far so my

1:46generator hasn't kicked in so the the panels are sucking in the sun which is great for the winter time that will be the only spot where I'm going to have to

1:54have substain with the the power and my generator doesn't kick in being it's on propane so that would be the only Bill I

2:02would really have to worry about but all the savings I get with the solar paying that bill shouldn't be an issue with my place being totally off- grid everyone's

2:10fascinated with it I recommend it totally especially if somebody's looking to save money big savings for everybody

2:17when you think about something look into it do your research I didn't have too many Shockers going into this

2:24everything's pric competitive and I found that biggest thing with the with the solar when everyone is complaining about their hydro bill I can say I don't

2:33have one I can honestly say I don't have one I'll run off a solar for the for the hot

2:41water and I run my stove my washer and dryer it's all run from my solar I basically had all my questions answered

2:49you know come to the end of the month I didn't have a hydro build a pce so it's been awesome