Well we’ve completed another month and as such we are coming up with another goal that we are working for.  In previous months we’ve worekd for a new  roof and to pay our taxes.  This month we decided that it would be a good idea to come up with a solution to what appears to be high energy bills in PR.  

We are planning on living on a budget and it would appear that the utilities might take up quite a bit of that.  So this month I figured it would be a good idea to save up for some solar panels. 

We don’t plan on using too much electricity other than for a few fans, a new refrigerator, music, charging laptops and using computers and lights.   Of course there will be other things like dishwashers, various kitchen appliances and the like.  I don’t even need to be off grid, I just want to off-set some of the long term subscription costs so I will have to start thinking about a design.

From what I read on CA2PR’s blog, electricity in Puerto Rico costs 29¢ a kilowatt-hour.  I think we pay around 4¢ here in colorado if you stay under 500kwh, everything above that gets billed at 9¢.   So the cost of electricity is quite a bit higher!

I will start to research what it will take, and asking our firends Jeff and Katrina for advice as they had a solar system setup on their previous home.