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it’s a $14 fee per solar panel

Note that usually you mount many solar panels, not just one, so this will stack relatively quickly.

If you're building out, say 12kw of PV, that's about 24 panels for a modern install (500w bifacial n panels).

So a $336 premium, or roughly 1.3 additional panels in terms of cost.

While sure, that's not nothing, it's ~$6700 vs ~$7050, or a ~5% premium to the pre-tax cost of the panels.

Panels are much cheaper than that.

Here’s 31 445W panels for $4,650, full retail. This is literally the first google result I clicked.

Two and a half years ago I bought 18 405W panels for $3,312, full retail. They were cheaper wholesale.

https://cdnsolar.ca/products/canadian-solar-445w-all-black-p...

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