{"id":2961,"date":"2007-07-10T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2007-07-10T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T12:00:06","slug":"home_features_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Home features 8.4 kW solar electric system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/local\/index.php?ntid=200717&#038;ntpid=5\">story<\/a> by Alec Luhn in the <em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When he got to what he calls &#8220;the mid-life crisis age,&#8221; Madison resident Jim Taylor, 45, said he figured &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m going to have to either buy a sports car or do something.'&#8221;<br \/>\nFor Taylor, that something was installing an 8.4-kilowatt solar panel array on his roof in April &#8212; the largest solar-energy system on a Madison residence.<br \/>\nAlthough he originally intended to supply only his family&#8217;s energy needs, he has been selling his excess energy to Madison Gas &#038; Electric the last two months and now could increase his earnings under a new buyback rate proposed by the utility.<br \/>\nUnder the proposal, Taylor would sell all of his energy to MGE at a rate of 25 cents per kilowatt-hour and buy back the portion he needs from the utility&#8217;s overall pool of renewable energy at about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story by Alec Luhn in the Wisconsin State Journal: When he got to what he calls &#8220;the mid-life crisis age,&#8221; Madison resident Jim Taylor, 45, said he figured &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m going to have to either buy a sports car or do something.&#8217;&#8221; For Taylor, that something was installing an 8.4-kilowatt solar panel array [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}