It's Always Sunny in Texas: A Complete Buyer's Guide to Solar Energy
Introduction My name is Derek Powell. I live with my wife and our 3 young children in the DFW metroplex in north Texas. I would describe my financial situation and energy needs as pretty typical of middle class America. I am a first-time homeowner in a relatively new housing development, which is apparently a hot selling ground for Solar installers. Over the last year and a half since buying our home, we've had our door knocked by somebody pitching Solar energy about every few months. I seldom entertain unsolicited sales pitches, but I'm a 'tech guy' and solar is a concept I'm interested in so I decided to talk to the last guy that came by. After talking to him for 2 hours, I was still unconvinced and wanted to do more research to decide if it was a good purchase for me and my family. This led me to over 15 hours of independent research, including informational interviews, reading online articles, and numerous lengthy discussions with actual installers, and now I...