If you get away with $25,000 for a good whole house solar home project I would say you were doing good. Closer to $40,000 or $50,000 to be realistic.


But that doesn’t mean you can’t put in zone solar power, have a panel that runs a few things.


But really your best return on solar power is solar water heating. Water heating is less expensive then solar electricity producing panels and they give a much better return on your water heating bills. Almost eliminating it. Another thing to look into is solar air heaters. These work like an electric heater would, they heat just a room, they are not too expensive $1600.00 for one that produces the same heat as an 1500 watt electric heater would. But they are also easy to make. And I have not seen it done in any that I have looked at, but you can boost their heating even more by putting several 12-volt light bulbs (like an auto stop light) to produce extra heat to warm the air even more. Just run the light bulbs off a 12-volt solar panel. No batteries needed, when the sun goes down the air and electricity production stops. It would be simple to do.


PS you could also use the light bulb idea in a solar water heater to make it produce hot water faster.