Category Archives: Massachusetts

We’ll let the homeowner describe his experience going solar and working with us: “Great experience, great results. New England Clean Energy began installation as soon after the winter as possible. Their employees worked in some pretty miserable, wet, windy and cold conditions, in addition to dealing with some high ground water issues (we have an […]

If you could buy milk for about 1/4 of the price you pay today, or toilet paper or some other staple in your household, how happy would you be? So go ahead and do that with your electricity. Solar makes it easy. This Acton, MA family reduced their electricity price from 22 cents per kWh […]

Not all solar panels are installed “portrait” (tall) orientation, with horizontal rails running across the roof. For this Bolton, MA system, we used “landscape” (long) orientation to make best use of the space. This layout required running the rail up and down the rather steep roofs. The customer posted this review on the Better Business […]

This 13-panel solar energy system covers 95% of the owner’s household electricity budget. Proof that big things do come in small packages. The roof on this home, by the way, is “TPO” or thermoplastic polyolefin, which is a single-ply reflective roofing membrane.

Sometimes solar design is simple. Sometimes it’s like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, trying to get the different pieces to fit together the right way. These homeowners were committed to covering 100% of their electric bill, so we kept at it until we found a way to do that. The resulting system on 4 roof faces […]

These photos may seem practically the same, but what can we say — we love looking at solar from every angle! And from the savings angle, this system looks pretty great, too. The town of Groton has relatively low electricity rates to begin with, at about 10 cents per kWh. But by shifting his electricity […]

Our first solar energy installation in North Andover deserves better photos, but we can’t control Mother Nature and the installation day was gray! So in this case, the schematic drawing of the system gives a better idea of what it actually looks like — 39 panels spread across 2 roofs.

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?

Sometimes the trees make it hard to get a good photo of a new solar energy installation, but the more important thing is that the roof is mostly shade-free. That’s the case with this Leominster home, which has 37 panels installed on two roofs. If you look carefully, you can see the panels on the […]