Solar panels cover part of Hawk and Ji Jung’s roof in Frisco, Texas, Friday, July 15, 2022.
Solar panels on Tom Seng's rooftop. The southeast facing panels provide him power from about 6:30am to 5:30pm during the summer. His hail-proof solar panels generate energy during the summer from approximately 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.A crew installs solar panels on a home in Plano.Seng said the amount a person saves on their electricity bill thanks to solar panels should help offset, or cancel out, the monthly cost of paying off the loans for the panels themselves. If that’s not the case, the panels may not be a good investment.
“The beauty of solar… is that the cost of that power is never going to be greater than the installation costs,” he said.It might seem like having your own power source will make you immune to blackouts as long as the sun is shining. But Hsu says generally, this is not the case. When there’s an outage in the middle of the day, her rooftop panels alone can’t keep her electricity on.