However, what if your roof is not made of asphalt shingles?īelow are cost estimates from for reinstalling different roofing materials. On paper this example of installing solar panels and reshingling the roof would cost less than installing a Tesla Solar Roof. If we add this to the cost of installing solar panels ($19,250, before incentives), the estimated cost would be $26,250. The average cost of replacing an asphalt shingle roof for a 2,000 square foot home comes out to approximately $7,000, according to. However, what if you are also considering reinstalling your roof along with installing solar? If you were not considering reinstalling your roof, just installing solar panels would be your best option. That means, for an average home that installs a 7 kW solar panel system, the cost would be $19,250 (before solar incentives, such as the 30% solar tax credit ).Īs you can see, the cost of installing solar panels is much less than the cost of installing a Tesla Roof. To compare the price of installing a Tesla Solar Roof to reinstalling other roofs, we need to break down two components: the cost of installing solar panels and the costs of reinstalling a roof.įor a conventional solar installation, the average cost per Watt is approximately $2.75/Watt. How Do Solar Roof Tiles Compare To Other Roofs? Tesla, not known for their transparency, has not provided numbers about how many Tesla Solar Roofs have been installed, nor provided much information about the ultimate costs of those installs. The unfortunate task of getting a true price estimate for a is that not many have been installed yet. That adds over $26,000 to the cost of a 2,000 square foot roof.Īs you can see, the pricing difference between what Tesla estimates and the ultimate price can be quite different. However, according to actual solar estimates from prospective Tesla customers, the actual cost of a Tesla Solar Roof comes out to approximately $35 per square foot.
Keep in mind that this includes the cost of replacing the entire roof material in place of solar tiles. That means a 2,000 square foot roof would cost about $44,000. However, we can use numbers provided by Tesla and numbers provided by real-life solar estimates from Tesla to compare the costs versus a conventional solar installation.Īccording to Tesla, their Solar Roof costs $21.85 per square foot with the assumption that 35% of the roof will be covered by non-energy producing tiles. Add to this conflicting numbers between cost estimates from Tesla and real-life solar installs, and the task is even more challenging. As with any solar install, many factors contribute to the cost of a solar project. While Tesla is not the first company to develop solar roofing tiles, it is by far the largest player in the game today.ĭeciphering the ultimate cost of a Tesla Solar Roof can be a tricky task. According to Tesla, the latest version of their solar shingles are larger, more efficient, easier to install, are cheaper to produce, and have fewer parts. The solar roof shingles available today are the third version developed by Tesla since its initial product came out in 2016. Non-energy producing roof tiles do not produce solar energy, rather they look nearly identical to the energy producing solar tiles and serve to complete the roof’s protection and aesthetics. Energy producing tiles incorporate solar cells that produce energy when exposed to sunlight. The solar roofing tiles come in two formats: energy producing and non-energy producing. The solar roof tiles can be installed in place of regular roofing material with the same protection value, and they come in various designs resembling terra cotta tiles, slate, and composite shingles. The Tesla Solar Roof is a building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) product that functions as both a roofing material and a photovoltaic solar panel system.
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