Category Archives: Massachusetts

New England Clean Energy is proud to be helping Mass Audubon achieve its goal of solar on every one of its 20 staffed wildlife sanctuaries. But its commitment to green energy doesn’t stop there. The environmental education nonprofit has also installed solar on this “Green Barn” at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, and on the nearby grounds […]

Sometimes it’s hard to know which financial benefit of solar to highlight, so here are a bunch of them for this 20-panel system, which doesn’t even have a spectacular roof for solar: 1st year electricity savings: $1,100 25 years of electricity savings: $45,192 (assumes electricity inflates at 4.3% annually) Price of electricity per kWh: $0.05 […]

As solar panel prices have dropped, roofs that weren’t “economical” for solar a few years ago work just fine now. For example, this system is on a roof that is only 70% of the ideal (meaning 100%), yet the system will pay for itself in about 6.5 years. After that, all the savings and green […]

Like all of the solar electric systems New England Clean Energy installs, this one in the Jefferson neighborhood of Holden comes with a number of safety nets: long-term warranties on the equipment, on our workmanship, and on how much electricity the system will produce. So the homeowners are pretty much guaranteed to get the savings […]

Municipal light departments like the one in Holden, Massachusetts tend to offer better rates than the big investor-owned utilities. But in most cases, solar can bring that price down even further. This solar energy system in Holden’s Jefferson neighborhood lowered the homeowners’ price per kilowatt-hour of electricity from $0.15 to $0.04, locked in for 25 […]

Solar on some roofs is very hard to photograph, because the roof is high up, nearly flat, or both. But trust us, this home has 38, 330-watt solar panels proudly displayed on the long southwest-facing roof. The roof is considered 70% of ideal for its ability to generate solar energy. A few years ago, a […]

We tend to talk about solar in decades, because that’s how long a system lasts. But what about the impact on a monthly basis, since that’s when we all pay our bills and that’s how many of us manage our budgets? Well, this homeowner was paying Eversource around $90 a month for electricity. With solar, […]

Sometimes the solar numbers are almost too good to believe, but trust us, they are correct. If this homeowner’s system produces less than we estimated, we’ll pay him the difference. He can expect: Monthly electricity savings of more than $275. Monthly average green income of $222 (for 10 years). A 25-year financial return of more […]

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 […]

New England Clean Energy is proud to have helped Mass Audubon install solar energy systems at many of its facilities. This 27-panel system at the Habitat Education Center & Wildlife Sanctuary is smaller than many of Mass Audubon’s other solar systems, but it still packs an environmental punch. By generating clean, emissions-free electricity, 12,500 fewer pounds of greenhouse gas carbon […]