Featured as a Tampa Bay ABC Home Pro, May Electric Solar sat down with a customer who watched her seven-month Duke Energy bill drop from $1,199 to just $151.
May Electric Solar, featured as a Tampa Bay ABC Home Pro
We were proud to be featured as one of Tampa Bay's ABC Home Pros on The Morning Blend (ABC Action News), sitting down with our own Neil Summers and a real May Electric Solar customer, Susan, to talk about what going solar actually did for her power bill. Watch the full Morning Blend segment below.
"He was the only salesman who could answer every question"
Susan started where a lot of Florida homeowners do, by shopping around. She visited many different solar booths at the Tampa Bay Home Show before she got to Neil.
"He's the only one who sat down with me for an hour at the Home Show and did graphics on his computer to show me how much I would be saving, what the roof array would even look like on my south-facing roof," she said. She came back the next day with more questions, scheduled a home appointment, and kept comparing companies. May Electric Solar was, in her words, "the most impressive."
Electricians first, and our own crew
Two things sealed it for Susan and her husband.
First, we're electrical contractors before we're solar installers. As a licensed EC contractor, we sign off on our own work, and for Susan's husband, hiring electricians "first and foremost" was very, very important.
Second, we never subcontract. "They have their own crew. They don't go out and hire people off the street or subcontract with someone else," Susan explained. "My husband was sold on that."
The install itself backed up the pitch: our crew arrived at 7:30 a.m., put 30 panels on the roof, and was finished by 1:30 that same afternoon.
The savings: $1,199 down to $151
Susan happens to be a math teacher, so she brought the receipts: a graph breaking the whole thing down.
Over the same seven-month stretch the year before, she'd spent $1,199 on Duke Energy to power her home. After going solar, that same seven months cost her just $151.
That's an 88% reduction in her electric bill, roughly twelve hundred dollars down to about a hundred and fifty.
Solar that keeps paying off
Susan and her family didn't stop at panels. They've since added an electric vehicle, and they charge it right from a garage outlet, using energy their solar system helps cover.
"We feel really pleased with everything," she said. For us, that's the whole point: design it right, install it with our own crew, and let the savings speak for themselves.
Curious what your own roof could do? Request a free, no-pressure quote and we'll sit down and run the numbers for your home, the same way we did for Susan.