{"id":3539,"date":"2014-04-03T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:45:38","slug":"solar-leasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-leasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Solar Leasing a Better Option than Buying Outright?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Should Aussies follow the American way when it comes to solar leasing?<\/p><\/div>\n

Are\u00a0Americans are getting their butts handed to them with long-term solar leasing?\u00a0And what can us Aussies do to come out ahead?<\/b><\/p>\n

It seems the suits perched in the top floor offices on Wall-Street are finally taking notice of solar energy.\u00a0 And that could spell bad news for American consumers.<\/p>\n

American energy firms like SolarCity, a growing solar-energy giant based out of California, have been offering long-term, relatively affordable leasing arrangements to consumers for years; either by financing the installation of panels or charging users by the kilowatt-hour and selling the remaining power back to the grid.<\/p>\n

But those arrangements are about to get a whole lot more expensive now that they, and firms like them, are going public.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because their shareholders, many of them massive hedge funds and banks, are demanding an American-sized profit which can only be attained through skyrocketing costs to consumers.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

And now SolarCity<\/a> and firms like them are expanding to Australia.<\/p>\n

No thanks mate. We Aussies do things a little differently than our friends across the water. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Who wants to be locked in to a multi-decade solar leasing contract with a faceless American corporation and their investors?<\/p>\n

What happens when you want to sell your home?\u00a0 Talk about a bureaucratic nightmare with heaps of negative financial implications.<\/p>\n

And what happens when new renewable energies are discovered, or markets shift positively, thus reducing the price of energy as a whole?\u00a0 You’re stuck paying the same rate you negotiated twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

Australians are discovering a different, more sustainable, more responsible, and far more inexpensive route:\u00a0purchase your own system.<\/p>\n

Unlike many of their counterparts in America, Aussies are choosing to own the roofs over their heads rather than leasing them from monolithic corporations.<\/p>\n

They’re also selling the energy they don\u2019t use back to the grid so that their fellow citizens might utilize it, all the while raking in a tidy sum that can offset their own energy costs and provide them with up to a 35% return.<\/p>\n

Here are a few helpful tips for the savvy Aussie energy consumer:<\/p>\n