You may have heard that the price of solar panels has dropped considerably in the past ten years. In fact, they’ve dropped by 75%. Whether you are motivated by saving money, freeing yourself from foreign energy sources or reducing your environmental impact, 2019 is a great year to consider installing solar. Here’s why: 1) Federal…
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…