Join the City of Walnut Creek and the City of Concord for their free “Local Renewable Energy Options for All” workshop and learn about programs to help you save money.
You’ll learn more about the local renewable energy program to help you go solar, discounts on electric vehicles, energy efficiency programs that will help you save money, and how to lower your household’s carbon footprint.
WHEN: Thursday, September 19 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Concord Council Chamber, 1950 Parkside Drive in Concord
I read that Porsche has an all-electric vehicle coming out – 400 to 750 horsepower for a mere $150K to $185K. I’d like the socialists in charge of this program to pay for 90 percent of the Taycan Turbo S for me. I can come up with the remaining $18.5K.
Yeah that Porsche sure looks sexy but as a first generation EV, specs close to a Tesla from several years ago and much more expensive. Check http://tesla.com/model3 for a more reasonable option that also goes 0 to 60 in 3.2 for about 1/3 the cost.
In regards to the socialists subsidizing – do you mean the billions of dollars subsidizing oil and gas to have cheap prices at the pump? They only very reluctantly let go of that tax dollar income stream so good luck in getting that to subsidize your Porsche 🙂
Instead of all of this expensive solar mumbo jumbo that is expensive, is a fire hazard, and will never pay off for most homeowners … How about simple energy efficiency options that are approachable for households, and don’t require the purchase of an electric vehicle (which takes a huge amount of resources from manufacturing to destruction) or solar system.
Use a clothes line for drying laundry, or inside during racks if you live in an apartment. Divert clothes washer discharge water as greywater for outside watering. Same with dish water. I hand wash all dishes, all dish water goes to my gardens. Use recycled water from Central San for outside watering if you have large gardens.
Keep it simple and approachable. These workshops do not.
ok Pyrrhus; I’m interested… Where did you get your facts from. I have been told by a non-profit out of the bay area that teaches about such that renewable energy efficient technologies for the home that solar was not the way to go. Not being sarcastic (I often am).
Just one data point: Our home in Concord cost us thanks to hot summers and PG&E raising prices year over year about $2400/year in electrical bill each year until 2015 when we replaced our first gas car with electric and looked at the numbers in detail.
We got quotes from the big solar installers and they all quoted us something that would pay for itself in 10-12 years and were not really getting that you needed to size it for the future to support both cars to be electric.
Then a friend told us about Solrise Electric from Pittsburg and they were able to get us a 10kW system that pays for itself in just 7 years. Panel wrrany is 25 years, inverters (two, 20 panels connected to each) have a warranty of 10 years.
Thanks to net-metering and a time of use EV-A charging plan that credits us more money per kW at day than we get charged at night when plugging in our cars over night to be full in the morning, we pretty much have a yearly bill of $100 to $200 instead of what used to be $2400.
Basically free fuel for the cars and waking up to a full 300+ range every morning just by plugging in over night like our iphones. The car is set to start charging at midnight and is usually done around 4am.
@ Mary Fouts,…I agree with you about the electric vehicles. Lots of people don’t realize what goes into manufacturing a battery for the cars and foot print impact from it. Plus, replacing a battery cost after 5 – 7 years?, Yikes! Also, with some homes, solar systems would mean clearing out some shade trees, and I rather keep my trees for my house, other plants and myself from baking in the sun.
I hope people realize this is a sales pitch sponsored by the City Council.
These events are being held all over the country by the same companies.
Solar panels are not efficient to produce and tough to recycle. The offset energy savings are negligible.
There are far better and less costly ways to save energy and keep your electrical bills lower.
Look at mini wind turbines for instance.