{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nPaul Wolff told us how he came to invest in solar energy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI did the math on it ahead of time.<br \/>\nI had a bunch of mutual funds that hadn&#8217;t done anything in a long time.<br \/>\nI figured out given the<br \/>\nstate and federal tax credits<br \/>\nwhat the payback would be,<br \/>\nand it came out to be about eight years.<br \/>\nSo I just divided that out, and by selling mutual funds<br \/>\nand investing that money in solar panels on my roof<br \/>\nit&#8217;s an eleven percent return.<br \/>\nAnd in this economic climate I have nothing else<br \/>\nyielding anywhere near that.<br \/>\nSo that&#8217;s a selling point.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/O6GQ9HAMKf8\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\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><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\n11% return on solar panel investment &mdash;Paul Wolff<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTybee Island, Chatham County, Georgia, 17 February 2012.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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"],"_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}]}}