{"id":987,"date":"2012-03-24T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/11-return-on-solar-panel-investment-paul-wolff-tybee-2012-02-17.html"},"modified":"2012-03-24T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:35:48","slug":"11-return-on-solar-panel-investment-paul-wolff-tybee-2012-02-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/11-return-on-solar-panel-investment-paul-wolff-tybee-2012-02-17.html","title":{"rendered":"11% return on solar panel investment &mdash;Paul Wolff @ Tybee 2012 02 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nPaul Wolff told us how he came to invest in solar energy:\n<blockquote>\nI did the math on it ahead of time.\nI had a bunch of mutual funds that hadn&#8217;t done anything in a long time.\nI figured out given the\nstate and federal tax credits\nwhat the payback would be,\nand it came out to be about eight years.\nSo I just divided that out, and by selling mutual funds\nand investing that money in solar panels on my roof\nit&#8217;s an eleven percent return.\nAnd in this economic climate I have nothing else\nyielding anywhere near that.\nSo that&#8217;s a selling point.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\n11% return on solar panel investment &mdash;Paul Wolff\n<br>\nTybee Island, Chatham County, Georgia, 17 February 2012.\n<br>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Wolff told us how he came to invest in solar energy: I did the math on it ahead of time. I had a bunch of mutual funds that hadn&#8217;t done anything in a long time. I figured out given the state and federal tax credits what the payback would be, and it came out [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,14,23,24,2519],"tags":[2521,1255,8701,10,399,8702,12,2524,1259,8713,2523,8714,2520,2522,1288],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-economy","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-tybee-2012-02-17","tag-17-february-2012","tag-chatham-county","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-investment","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-mutual-fund","tag-paul-wolff","tag-renewable-energy","tag-return","tag-solar","tag-the-volta-collaborative","tag-tvc","tag-tybee-island"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-fV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}