From a Wall Street Journal in the print version, May 31, 2016, pp. B3, Cassandra Sweet: Solar Panel Leasing Decreases as More Customers Look to Buy - WSJ They are on track to serve just 50% this year, according to GTM, as smaller companies such as Sunworks Inc. and PetersenDean Inc. that offer loans to purchase the panels pick up more business. Having seen GM 'pull the plug' on a leased EV1, I have no interest in doing the same for home solar. But I'll buy solar even if I have to buy it one watt at a time. Fortunately, the technology has rapidly advanced and I'm impressed by the distributed inverter panels. Instead of trying to tie panels together into a central, single-failure point, inverter, each panel is a standalone, field replaceable unit. So if one panel goes bad, the remaining panels continue to produce power. Bob Wilson
