Location: Foster, Rhode Island

Watts: 5,175

Monthly Production: 520 kWh

Date: October 2016

This 15-panel, ground-mounted solar energy system produces 89% of the home’s electricity, at a price about half what National Grid charges, plus it’s locked in for decades. The homeowner is very happy she went solar:

“I wanted to reduce my carbon footprint and dependency on the electric company, and take advantage of what’s out there just waiting for us to use it’s potential…the Sun!”