The Climate Change Collective is an initiative where the blogging community unites behind a common goal. Today, the conversation continues with the seventh post in the series. Krista from A Sustainably Simple Life shares her experience with residential solar panels, and the savings her family has realized from this change.
Residential solar panels: How much could you save?
Home energy use is an area where we can all make changes. Last month’s Climate Change Collective post provided home energy saving tips. But, what if you could further reduce your impact by using your home to generate energy?
In these days of high inflation, not receiving an electric bill for nine months seems like a dream for most people. Yet, that’s exactly Krista’s experience since installing solar panels on her home.
We’re hoping that a full year with the new panels (and hopefully a better spring!) will result in us having only one or two small energy bills per year.
Krista, A Sustainably Simple Life
Read Krista’s post to learn more about her experience and the savings her family realized.
Residential solar panels: 2022 year in review
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About the Climate Change Collective
The Climate Change Collective was born out of an exchange that took place when I left a comment on a blog post by Jamie Ad Stories. Jamie and I wanted to find a way to keep the climate change message top of mind for everyone, so I put out a tweet to see what kind of interest there would be in a climate-change-related blogging collaboration. The Climate Change Collective was born!
The members of the collective take turns writing a monthly blog post sharing their unique perspective about climate change. After the post is published, the rest of the group keeps the conversation going by sharing a link to the post on their blogs along with their thoughts and ideas.
If you’re a like-minded blogger and would like to join our collective, please get in touch. More voices joining the conversation means more attention to the problems plaguing our planet!
More Climate Change Collective posts
If you missed any of the other posts in the series, here they are:
- How climate change impacts your health…and your wallet
- Understanding how climate action redefines our future – Molly, Transatlantic Notes
- Travel with climate change – Jamie, JamieAdStories
- How climate change impacts animals – Caroline, Enviroline Blog
- How our need to shop is ruining our planet – A Sustainably Simple Life
- Residential solar panels: 2022 year in review– A Sustainably Simple Life
- How you can reduce your energy consumption and save money by saving the planet – Crisbie Coach
- 6 ways to reduce the environmental cost of experiences
- Returning to past habits – Smelly Socks And Garden Peas
- How green spaces help our planet A Sustainably Simple Life
- The benefits of active travel – Could it save you and the planet? – Midlife on Earth
- A Greener World – Debunking Myths About Climate Change – Molly, Transatlantic Notes
- Microforests – A tiny idea with big potential
- The impact climate change has on food security and how to help – Caroline, Enviroline Blog
- Reconnecting with nature and self by disconnecting from the world – A Sustainably Simple Life
- Wrapping Up Doesn’t Have to Be a Waste – Jamie, JamieAdStories
- It’s cold outside – The difference between weather and climate
- Our climate action does not need to be perfect – Molly, Transatlantic Notes
Depending on where you live, installing residential solar panels may not be an option for you. I applaud Krista for embracing renewable energy and making this change, and for sharing her story with others who may be considering solar panels.
Have you ever considered adding solar panels to your home? Tell me your thoughts below.
I think I read Jamie’s post on this topic a couple of days ago. I’ve always wanted to have solar panels, and it doesn’t even bother me if it saves me money, as long as it helps the environment. But I’ve not been in a situation where I can do anything about having solar panels
Thank you. I agree with you. I’m willing to spend a little more on a lot of things to help the environment but not everyone is in a position to do that. I think if everyone did what they could it would go a long way!
It was really interesting reading Krista’s post, and that’s fantastic the solar panels had a significant impact on her energy bills. Also, Crisbie Coach’s post was great too because even though I would love to have solar panels, we live in an apartment so that’s not possible, but there are plenty of other ways we can reduce energy consumption.
You’re right Karalee. There are so many ways we can reduce energy consumption every day, and it doesn’t have to be a big inconvenience or investment. I’m glad you found the post interesting. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
My friend just moved to Florida. Bought a house with solar panels. Her insurance is ridiculous
Oh really. Is that because of the solar panels or being in a hurricane region, or possibly a combination of the two?
Yes…high winds can be an issue. What she saves on energy is no where near what she’ll spend on insurance. It’s a real consideration
That’s interesting. I’m going to ask Krista if that has been her experience.
My friend was shocked. It’s something she’d never considered
Here’s what Krista said about insurance. “No increase at all! It fell within our current policy with no amendments.”
To be fair my friend moved from Pennsylvania to Florida, so it was sort of apples to oranges, but she pays like five times what she paid in homeowners insurance.
Wow. That is a huge increase. It would be hard to determine how much of that relates to solar panels.
Yeah. Now I’m going to go down a rabbit hole with this
It’s been such a great experience seeing how Krista and her family have incorporated solar panels into their home. Thanks for sharing about our post 🙂
It’s definitely inspiring. I’m seeing more and more solar panels in our neighbourhood.