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By Mark Lawrence

The Ultimate Solar Decision Guide: Owning vs Leasing Panels for Your Home

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Photovoltaic systems generate electricity from sunlight that helps to lower or even eliminate your reliance on traditional energy sources. Isn’t it amazing? You reduce that chunk of money that you pay monthly for electricity. However, everything has a downside; the solar power systems need you to make quite an initial capital injection. Every homeo...
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