By Tux Turkel Going solar wasn’t a big stretch for Serena Graham. She grew up in an environmentally-aware family, with a father and two cousins who had solar-electric panels. So when she and her husband bought a 1962-built house in Waterville, they insulated and air-sealed and dumped oil heat fora wood pellet boiler. They replaced power-hungry lights with LEDs, to…
The pace of solar development in Maine, and whether it grows through thousands of rooftop installations or a limited number of utility-scale projects, has been the subject of debate this year in state government. The outcome is important to homeowners, because a key part of the discussion has centered around net metering. Net metering is…
Roughly half the homes that Maine solar installers visit aren’t well situated for installing electric or hot water panels. But that means half will work, either with a rooftop array or one mounted on a pole on the property. How’s your home? What direction does your roof face? True south is best, of course. That’s…