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Carnahan Electric can Install Your Solar Array...

You can really reduce your PG&E bill with sunlight making electricity for you. If you think that sounds wrong, you should consider your payments over a year, times the number of years you'll be in your home. Then realize that PG&E bills increase in two ways: first, and average 7 percent increase each year; second; you pay an increasing rate for each tier of usage! If your bill is more than $150, look at it. See Tier 1, Tier 2, etc? See the increasing charge per kW hour? Now take an average of your yearly bills and see what you're spending.

Now consider solar. Most arrays are built to handle the power you need above Tier 1. It is too expensive to totally remove your PG&E charges; besides, you want to stay hooked onto the Grid, and Tier 1 is a pretty inexpensive ticket to ride.

But wait! You imagine what solar might cost, right? You think it's too expensive. Well, consider this: you buy your equipment and the monthly payments are established; a set amount, each month, no increases. Then at payoff, the equipment is yours and you continue to use power that is basically free. Your neighbor is paying more and more, but now you are putting your money into the bank!

Want us to prove this? Please give us a call 530-642-2476. We will come see your location and give you an estimate. Then you can decide if this is right for you.

Oh, and there's always a fly in the ointment, so consider this...

We are the generator guys! We want you to know that at some point in your future, your electrical power will be lost. For an hour, …for a day, …even for a week or so! You should call 530-642-2476 to learn about a safe back-up source for power.

If you feel prepared because you have a small gasoline-fueled generator in your garage, think again. While a little generator can get you through a camping trip with your RV, or run some tools around your yard, using one to help in a power outage has some serious drawbacks; you need to let it cool down before you can refuel it so you don’t start a fire! And it should be hooked into a special connection to send power into a home. Did you know that?

Aside from the danger, a small generator won’t power much of anything. What do you need most? the pellet stove? the well pump? the TV? Really, You should have an emergency generator that runs on propane*. As long as you have a adequate tank, you could go for days without grid power, depending on power provided by your quiet generator in the back yard. And if you choose, you can have automatic start-up when it senses the power outage.

Carnahan has installed more than a hundred generators
around the county; we're ready to install yours.

Early snow falls wet and heavy, dropping tree branches on power lines, leaving thousands without power. No lights, no well water, no heat, and for hours to several days! At first it's an inconvenience. During the day you can stare out the window. At night it's a different story; when it's dark you need to have some candles or flashlights; kids get scared. Candles can be dangerous. Your pellet stove won't provide heat. You will wish you had a back-up generator!