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Solar Panels Increase Home Value

Posted by Soulskill on from the nimby-schmimby dept.

blair1q writes "Venture Beat reports that a study (PDF) by Berkeley National Labs has found that homes sold in California earned a premium for solar panels. The benefit ranged from $3900 to $6400 per kW of capacity. An earlier study found that proximity to solar or wind power may also raise home values. These results contradict the arguments based on degrading home values used by putative NIMBY (Not In My Back-Yard) opponents to installing or living near such energy-generating equipment."

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  1. Re:Makes Sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Efficiency is important. However, banning the use of Incandescent light bulbs because they're 1% efficient at generating light is stupid. The other 99% of the energy isn't lost in some magical fairy land.

    My lamps happen to also heat my house, which means I don't have to have the thermostat up too high.