At current prices and incentives, a rooftop solar system recovers its net cost in the number of years shown here — earlier than that, every kilowatt-hour is profit.
Installed system cost, before incentives
18000
USD
Incentive or rebate, as a share of cost
30
%
Electricity generated per year
9000
kWh/yr
Price you pay per kilowatt-hour
0.17
USD/kWh
Payback years
8.24 yr
Electricity cost avoided each year
1,530 USD/yr
Interactive artifact by
Delineo