Category Archives: Dormer

This installation had 34 REC panels installed along with Enphase microinverters.

This 52-solar panel system is designed to generate 19,691 kWh per year, which is 108% of the homeowner’s annual electricity usage. It is bringing the homeowner a lot of value by locking in an implied electric rate of $0.05 kWh. The homeowner is using a solar loan to pay for his system and his Net Financial Benefit is […]

This 26-panel solar energy system is making 65% of the homeowner’s annual electricity usage. Altogether, it’s like paying $0.10 per kWh for 25 years instead of paying an ever-inflating rate starting at $0.24 per kWh. Plus, the environmental impact of this homeowner’s efforts is 13,900 fewer pounds of Carbon Dioxide released per year, which is […]

This 34-panel solar energy system is making more electricity than the homeowner needs – 122% of his annual electricity usage.  Before going solar, the customer’s average bill to National Grid was about $220 a month while after going solar,  even though he is using a solar loan to pay for his system, his monthly expenses come […]

These homeowners opted for very powerful, 350-watt solar panels to get as much electricity as possible from their solar energy system. Over the system’s first 25 years, even taking into account what they paid for the solar, their electricity rate plunges from the $0.21 they’ve been paying National Grid, to just $0.06 with solar.

Got a dormer breaking up your roof? No worries, we work around dormers all the time, as we did for this solar energy system! Speaking of breaking up, isn’t it time to break up with your utility? This family has reduced their monthly electricity expense from $128 to $69, even when you factor in their […]

This roof has a Total Solar Resource Fraction (TSRF) of 89%. In other words, it’s 89% of what a perfect roof would be for generating solar. That makes it a great roof, but “lesser roofs” are now working for solar too. As panel prices have dropped, lower TSRF’s have become more economical for homeowners. What […]

In general, the more solar your system produces, the faster it will pay for itself, leaving you with years more, possibly decades, of free electricity. This roof is 70% of ideal, which means it produces significantly less than an 85% or 90% roof. But panel prices have come down so much in recent years that […]

This barn renovation included solar energy panels – now that’s what we like to see! More and more people factor solar into their new homes and renovations. In fact, in Massachusetts, new homes are required to be “solar ready”. And check out the metal roof. We like to brag about how long solar panels last […]

Talk about independence. These Leicester, MA homeowners began making their own clean energy, asserting their independence from the electric company, the day before the 4th of July! Their monthly electricity budget is now $20 a month less than it was before solar. How did we calculate that? We took the amount of their monthly solar […]