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Going Solar in Moriarty

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Michelle Worley, blogging for Live and Learn New Mexico, Building a Nonprofit. We moved to Moriarty from Cedar Crest in April and we are still not entirely set up with solar energy. This is because it's learn as we go and also because it's damn expensive! We started out buying two small kits (one at $1300, the other at $700), one for the kids' camper and one for my small mobile home. Each kit, with three solar panels, is not enough to get all the appliances in either place running but we were able to get what was important to us -- internet/television, light, and food -- with the energy these kits provided. It has not been a smooth run the whole way. We have hit some bumps and we're still figuring some things out. The plan was to add solar panels and batteries a little at a time but today we got a propane tank installed and now we have to get the furnace hooked up to electricity in order to pass inspection. We need to add more panels/batteries sooner, and we need