Research

January 28, 2004 by
Filed under: Solar Energy 

I started my research on the net, as always.

I found a few interesting things:

1. New Jersey has an amazing rebate program for small PV systems (under 10KW). You can find their site at NJCEP. The bottom line is that they’ll pay for up to 70% of your system as long as it is grid-connected and you use net metering with the utility (You buy from the utility when needed – like at night, and you sell to the utility when you have excess power – during spring daytime mostly. Your meter runs backwards some of the time!)

2. These systems cost about $50,000 total, but the rebate (above) reduces that to a reasonable level.

3. There is almost no maintenance required for a PV system.

I ended up choosing Jersey Solar of Lambertville, NJ. Rick Brooke is the President of that company. This company was featured in all of the residential case studies listed at the NJCEP website (above) and the PSE&G solar energy page http://www.pseg.com/customer/home/save/rebate1.html. More in the next entry on what we’re buying.

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