Category Archives: Berlin

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 […]

This family-owned farm took advantage of a USDA grant program that makes it even more cost-effective for agricultural businesses to install solar, make their own clean electricity, and reduce their energy costs. This solar energy system is the second we’ve installed for Holiday Farm Farmstand, where the owners are serious about their environmental commitment. The first system […]

At the time of this writing, Massachusetts offers a $1,000 tax credit to homeowners installing solar on their properties. That’s on top of the even bigger federal tax credit, which lops 30% off your solar purchase price (even if you finance with a loan). And yet those savings pale in comparison to the value of the […]

Solar energy systems can be installed on condos, but it does require a little extra effort. In most cases, the Condo Association must approve the installation. In this case the system covers part of the neighbor’s roof, so that required permission, too. The system has 31 SunPower 345-watt panels. Its 10,695 watts produce almost 13,000 […]

This pretty system has 40 SunPower AC panels, each rated at 245 watts for a total of 9,800 watts. After paying his monthly home electric bill, the customer applies the extra to his business electric bill in what is known as virtual net metering.

The 6,630 kWh of pollution-free electricity generated by this Berlin, MA system per year will prevent the release of more than 10,000 pounds of CO2 into the air, which is about the amount of CO2 that 3.7 acres of trees can absorb!  The system is isntalled on two roofs of the expansive Cape style home.

This multi-roof, 8,280-watt system in Berlin, MA belongs to a customer who chose New England Clean Energy for a second installation, having been pleased with the first job 7 years ago. Her solar was installed on a small face of the house hip roof, and on the gable roof of the barn.

This large, 45-panel system blends into the two roofs as seen from the side. The garage hosts 36 SunPower 327-watt panels, and the main house has 9 panels. PowerOne string inverters complete the array. (And despite how it looks in some of the images, the panels are not floating off the roof into space! That’s […]

A 6,560-watt solar electric system situated on a horse barn covers between a third and virtually all of this farm’s electricity needs in any given month. In the first four years since turning their system on, solar made them almost 32,000 kilowatt-hours of clean energy — 2,000 watts above projections. This offsets 22.6 metric tons […]

This “stadium mount” ground-mounted solar electric system, which went live in June 2011, has 30 Schuco 180-watt panels, and Enphase M190 micro-inverters.