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It is becoming too complicated for the average person to install and enjoy any type of renewable energy (RE) system. I suppose Home Power has to sell the idea that only professionals are capable of sorting out all the varieties of PV modules, shunts, inverters, and what-not, but do you have to confuse me in the process? When everyone is an expert, who are we to believe? I'm never going to go "off-grid" or even put up a single PV module-because if the module costs $100, you have to buy $400 more in equipment and spend a $1,000 more in "expert" installation costs. Using the information from your magazine as a guide, I would be tearing my installation down every month, just to install some new gizmo. Just like the electrical grid, you are pricing renewables out of the reach of most average people, and your magazine is partially responsible for tripling the complexity of renewables.