They are selling solar at about 6-7 per watt. Every other company sells for $2 a watt. That’s how they can afford nonstop ads everywhere. When I worked for them, I was told they spend about $10,000 in advertising per customer so I better not screw up any sales.
The cost and headaches hardly seems worth the savings if you get any savings at all. After all you are paying an electric bill and for the solar panels for 30 years.
💯 This is all over the country. Not just pinkenergy but many other companies. The way I see it, it's private companies taking ownership of your house. 😠
4:15 I use to work for Powerhome and have done news interviews since. The rep is not allowed to sell to houses with too much tree coverage over the roof. So that’s why she told you that. That was a big problem I had when doing sales, they would send me to places 2 hours from St Louis only to find homes covered in trees that I couldn’t possible sell to.
Same here in Michigan. Bunch of cut throat used car salesmen. From top to bottom. Rip off artists. Glad I got out. They still screwed me of $10k in commissions. Nothing wrong with Generic.
My solar company trimmed the trees down on my property at no extra charge for me. It was included in the installation. I live out in the country on 50 acres, I had a lot of trees around where they put the panels up. About 1/3 of the panels were covered in shade most of the day. They just trimmed 3 trees and completely removed a 4th tree. We had a long discussion about it. I'm about to have the loan paid off at the end of this year. I'm considering getting a new loan and installing a good battery backup since I did not go with that option the first time. May even hook my garage where I do my business up to solar as well.
I’m starting a small solar generator for power outages to keep my food storage running. I can build onto it and learn as I go. There are plenty of good resources on RU-vid.
don't waste your money. go get 200Ah 12V car-like battery. Get the inverter from the aliexpiress + get the battery charger. you don't need lithium batteries to have a backup 1 time per year. this is a waste of money.
I worked in the warehouse for pink energy, I pulled a job off the Shelf for a single wide trailer panels from Pink energy/ power home for 90,000 Jason Waller trained his sales people to rob people, remember you heard it here first
He definitely payed too much for the system but I call BS on that it only provides 10% offset. This guy is running a indoor pot farm if that’s the case. He’s producing 5.62KWs at the time of this interview. 1.94KWs to the house and 3.16KW exported to the grid. So he probably has close to a 7.5KW system. That would be overkill for most houses in a hot environment(100* summers). He’s probably one of those guys that uses more energy after the install.
the system wasn't designed correctly. i'm going to assume the inverter was undersized for the panel output and the solar company blames generac. generac is claiming the company used the wrong inverter for the system and should have used a higher input rated model. from what i've seen, there weren't any micro inverters for each panel. if one panel drops, all the panels will drop. if each panel has it's own micro inverter, it would isolate any panels that are not receiving enough solar and not affect the system. it can be upgraded to produce the desired energy, but i don't think the customer is happy about dumping more money into an overpriced system to make it really work.
I stopped the video to read the grid-tie meter. His system is producing ample electricity, but 60% is going out to the power grid. He was definitely scammed. Grid tie systems are useless in power outages. Storage batteries are a much better option. You gotta cut the cord.
The funny part is that RU-vid makes me endure a solar panel commercial in order to watch this video. I have 0 compassion for suckers who get swindled by TV ads.
Pink Energy, formerly Powerhome, has shut down all operations. A qualified electrical contractor, working with a qualified roofer for rooftop system or another qualified contractor for other locations on the property, can easily design and install a quality, working solar system, typically for less than half of what Pink Energy and other such companies charge. Time for more coffee.
It's up to you as a consumer to make a decision, says the lady in charge of the better Business bureau. Then why are you even around better Business bureau?
To help people make a decision. You can't make an informed decision without access to information, but it's your responsibility as an adult to inform yourself before signing a binding contract. Pinkenergy are awful, but if you spend $65K without getting a second quote/opinion or even a quick google search then you're a fool.
Literally Kirby sales-man sales techniques. My advice to customers is do your homework, and don't believe anything a salesman says, get everything in writing before signing anything.
My house is very efficient and uses an average of 683kwh per month. That's about 23kwh per day and I can say without a doubt that his system is more than enough, but with no battery reserve it's a moot point. Because the energy he buys from 8PM to 10AM is eating up any potential savings. I paid just under $26k for my system and my average pull from the grid is less than 600kwh per year now. Upkeep is a constant battle with solar and if not done it will crash. PS I sell no energy back to the grid!
Seeing the battery briefly in the video, they seem way too small. Maybe that's the problem. Whenever I see Tesla solar batteries they look much bigger.
the fact that they are even selling the product when they dont have a reliable power source (ie generac) worked out and sorted (if they do why not fix the broken ones) tells you this company is scamming if you were an honest company you wouldnt be doing this.
1:26 in the video shows his system generating 5.62kw and his home is using 1.94kw. The rest is going back to the grid. Not sure if he gets compensated for feeding the grid but it looks like his system is oversized.
He won’t get compensated. He gets netmetering. At night when he’s generating no electricity the grid will send back the extra energy he made during the day, and about once a month anything extra is just given back to power company, so you can’t “save up” all summer to try and get it back over the winter when the sun goes down at 5pm
Agreed. He's sending 3.1KW back to the grid. Also, there's no battery to the system. Why not? If there's no sun (at night) then there's no power. If there's a rip off here, it's that -- (1) assuming the A/C's are on, the system if 3X too large; and (2) there's no battery bank for night use. For the price he paid, there should be a battery bank.
Ignorant people trusting a salesman and not doing their own research about the efficiency and reliability of solar panels is their own fault really. Renewable energy is good to work on and better, but as it stands, the fuels we currently use are in high abundance and are extremely reliable. If I'm relying on heating my home, I prefer gas or oil, considering these fuels will always light up. Wind, solar, hydro... thats bo guarantee. Lighting a fuel will never fail.
Your first paragraph could be re-written by replacing solar panels with the term ‘anthropogenic global warming’. These solar panel accounts are yet another chapter within the larger story of the global racketeering fraud on Carbon trading. I’m not sure which is now the bigger Crime of the Century: 1) Anthropogenic Global Warming/ Carbon brokerage or 2) Pfizer/Big Pharma mandated mRNA inoculations
That's until the fuel is too expensive to buy or the next Katrina shuts it all down. Wood is better and cheaper (mostly free). Nothing wrong with solar but it is only good as long as you have plenty of light (does not have to be full sun) and plenty of backup batteries for days you do not have the light. Nothing is absolute and having backups for your backups is key especially living in areas prone to tornadoes/hurricanes/snow. Depending on one source and believing it'll always be there is just as foolish as those who buy without research.
It's a sacrilege to deface their beautiful backyard with that huge black thing with trees near it. I bet no birds are making their nests there. I can't imagine a fledgling bird daring to leave its nest and landing on that big black hot thing in the full afternoon sun. They say it's for the planet and to save nature but the outcome is the opposite, they destroy nature and savage our landscapes.
Anyone who pays over $8k for 12 panels, without the rebates, that produce 4.2kw which is more than what a normai house needs is crazy. I sell my extra power to the electric company which charges me a fee of 1 to $3 a month. I have yet to have a electric bill this year. It's been a credit. I have Tesla solar.
