Free Solar Installations
Free Solar Installations? Some people are jumping at the thought of a free solar installation. It may appear on the surface to be a great deal but with a little more due diligence there probably is a better option for putting solar panels on your building. Free Solar Installations are usually done by a group ...
Bellefonte Borough becoming a role model!
Bellefonte Borough is considering Solar along with other renewable energy sources to help offset their electric costs. Talk about cutting edge, Bellefonte Borough has already done a tremendous job at reducing their electric costs and implementing energy efficiency. From 2005 to 2009 they reduced their annual electric consumption by 18%, that’s enough to power 129 ...
Share your solar energy with the power companies
In 2004 the PA General Assembly passed a law, Act 213 of 2004. This law requires PA’s utility companies to provide a certain percentage of their power from renewable sources. Furthermore it gets even better for solar because there is an additional requirement that requires a share of that renewable energy to specifically come from ...
RECs = CASH!!!
As I mentioned in my last post when you generate 1 megawatt hour of electricity you are issued a REC for being green. The power companies need these credits because they are required to create solar power. Since they do not create enough solar power they have to purchase the “greenness” from someone who does. ...
What is a Renewable Energy Credit
Renewable Energy Credits or RECs for short are a certificate that gets created when you produce 1 megawatt of clean power from a renewable source.In PA they are called Alternative Energy Credits. So both terms are interchangeable. A specific type of REC that was produced by solar is called a SREC. RECs are important to ...
CA$H for Solar
That’s right, you can make cash with your solar electric system. In central PA every Kilowatt of solar that you install generates about 1 megawatt of electricity per year. Every megawatt of electricity you generate with solar becomes 1 Renewable Energy Credit. Which then can be sold for $$$. The average weighted price of a ...
