There are many reasons that owning a house makes more sense than renting, so if you had the chance would you rather own your electricity instead of renting it from the utility company?  One of the advantages of having a solar system installed is that you would own part of your electrical production instead of "renting" energy from the power company.  Keeping this in mind, why would you want to rent a solar electric system?  Our competitors offer a rental plan of $45 a month for six years which comes up to $3420 and at the end of 6 years you would have the choice to purchase it or have it removed.  Here at CES we offer a similar system for purchase. Our system costs approximately $3600 after tax incentives and you will own it outright after 5 years. With this system installed the money you save on your electricity bill will cover the cost in 4-5 years.

This graph illustrates the money you will save over the lifetime of the system. The total life-cycle payback is almost 500%.

Not only will your system pay for itself after 4-5 years, it will also be worth approximately $12,000 is you choose to sell it making solar panels a great investment.  In addition to the wonderful financial benefits of this investment, your solar system will help reduce greenhouse gases by 94 tons of CO2.

We only use the highest quality components at CES.  All PV panels we install are Lumos and we use Enhpase micro inverters.   The efficiency of Lumos panels is 14.97% which his higher Sharp's of 14.7%, a BP of 13.8%, or a Trina panel of 14.1%.  Lumos panels are made to such high quality standards that one we have was hit by a fork lift and severely damaged but still outputs its full specified voltage when in sunlight.

This graph illustrates the increase in savings as the price of electricity increases.