In case you haven't seen the press releases - Tesla has developed and is manufacturing a solar roof. Their roof panels look like standard tile, concrete or even wooden shingles. Yet they are interconnected underneath and are in fact no only a roof, they're also able to generate enough power to run the entire house itself but enough extra power to run the houses next door or the office building across the street as well.

Tesla Solar Roofs do not cost any more than a standard roof of similar design. They're light weight, weather-tight, and warranted for the lifetime of the structure! That's right. They're guaranteed to last as long as the house itself does and keep on producing power at the guaranteed level or more!

Yes, you heard me correctly. For new construction, the cost of a full solar roof from Tesla, a roof that can power your house in addition to keeping it warm or cool and dry and safe from weather, can not power your entire home for thirty years or more. And it can do so at the cost of most conventional roofs or less!

If you can buy a roof that eliminates most of your power bill, or a conventional roof that does not, and they're both the same money, you'd be an idiot to choose the roof without the power generation capabilities.

In addition to the Tesla Roof, they also have batter packs now (also made my Tesla) that can store 20 Killowatt house of electricity made by that solar roof, at no cost to you, for use when the sun is down or there are rainy or over cast days and your solar roof is not making sufficient power to run your home during those times. Or, if you're in an area that "peak power demand billing" using the site-made power from the battery pack could well save you as much as 30 cents per KW/H if you have that ability vs paying the punishing rates charged by some power utilities. Given that a medium sized air conditioner can use as much as 8 killowats of power per hour of operation, or translated into dollars, that means $2.10 cents per hour to run that AC vs paying NOTHING because you're pulling your own power made by your own solar roof perhaps yesterday or the day before and stored in your power pack until it's needed. Believe me, if you're paying 30 cents per KW/Hour - you will be thrilled to have a no-cost of lower cost alternative as you watch your neighbors spending 16 dollars or more for every eight hours their AC unit is running.

Given that power costs are spiraling ever higher, and demand is growing to fast that in many metro areas when it's 3 to 5 PM and on a brutally hot day, and every store and office building in town is trying to keep their employees and customers comfortable, some cities are now experiencing brown outs which means they won't have enough power to meet demand and you and your home may be without power for an hour or two at the most critical times of the day.

A solar roof and power packs can totally eliminate this possibility and keep ti from ever occurring again.