Category Archives: Colonial

This solar energy system is small by 2017 standards, with only eight panels. But the SunPower panels pack a punch. And the impact on the family’s electric bills is kind of mind-blowing. Today, they pay Unitil about 23₵ per kWh. With normal inflation, that will be more like 63₵ in 25 years time. But with solar? […]

This new solar energy system is our 87th in Harvard! More important, it’s reducing the owner’s electricity price from 21₵ to 7₵ per kWh. Why pay the utility 3 times as much as you can pay yourself/the bank for the same amount of reliable electricity?

We don’t let something small like a vent pipe smack dab in the middle of your roof stop us from installing the best possible solar electric system. We simply move the vent pipe, like we did for this Holden homeowner. We can also work around vent pipes, but some people prefer moving them because it […]

Some people close up their skylights to make room for solar, but that wasn’t necessary in this case. We had plenty of roof space to work with, to accommodate these 18 SunPower panels. The panels are black-on-black, meaning no white backsheet, so they blend into the roof seamlessly.

We prefer sunny blue sky as the backdrop for photos of the systems we’ve installed, but there’s something kind of peaceful about this hazy white sky. It certainly offsets the 30-panels of this solar energy system nicely as they frame the dormer on this Concord, MA roof.

New England Clean Energy crews care as much about how your solar looks as you do — and not just on the roof, but the related equipment in your basement and on the outside of your house. (In the second photo, our inverter and wiring is on the left side.) Just because no one looks […]

We all know what big polluters automobiles are. This homeowner’s clean energy system is reducing fossil-fuel emissions equivalent to taking almost 2 cars off the road. That’s substantial! We don’t want to speak for Mother Earth, but we’re pretty sure she’s saying ‘thank you’.

This relatively small solar electric system — 20 panels and 5,200 watts — still earned more than $8,000 in federal and state tax credits. Get your government tax credits while the gettin’ is good. 🙂

California may have more solar energy systems than New England (it is a lot bigger, after all!), but according to this New England Clean Energy customer, East beats West when it comes to customer service and installation quality! The happy customer posted this on Solar Reviews: “We had a solar system in California before we […]

The higher the rate you pay your local electric company today, the greater value solar can bring you. But even in Boxborough, where a municipal light department offers one of the state’s lowest rates at about 10 cents per kWh, solar still makes sense. This homeowner effectively cut her kWh rate from 10 cents to […]