Energy Solutions
For Residential and Commercial Locations.
Rooftop Solar, EV Charging Stations, Carports, and more...
Energy Solutions
For Residential and Commercial Locations.
Rooftop Solar, EV Charging Stations, Carports, and more...
The Benefits of Going Solar
Energy Costs Savings
Electricity costs add up to a substantial percentage of your monthly expenses. Installing solar panels means you can generate free power that can reduce or even eliminate your utility bills. This leaves you with more spare cash at the end of every month and also protects you from the expense of rising energy costs. With grid-based electricity prices increasing every year, you will be able to freeze that cost at the current price with your purchase of the solar system.
The Federal Solar Energy Credit
The Residential Clean Energy Credit is a solar tax credit that will provide you a tax credit for 30% off your home solar installation. As a homeowner, you can claim a federal solar tax credit for the amount of money that you pay towards installing solar, and reduce the amount you owe when you file your yearly federal tax return.
Increase Property Value
Recent statistics reveal that homes with solar power sell for up to 4.1% more than homes without, so installing solar is a great way to increase the price of your property.
- Example: Market Value of your property: $420,000
- Market Value of your property with solar: $437,220
The Environmental Benefits
With all the talk of air pollution and climate change these days, most people have a general understanding of the need to reduce their personal carbon footprint. But why are solar panels good for the environment? In short, solar energy is clean, green, and abundant, and the generation of energy from solar panels doesn’t generate any harmful carbon emissions or greenhouse gases the way burning fossil fuels does. When you install solar panels on your property, you negate the need to buy power from the carbon-emitting grid, therefore reducing your impact.
100% Financing Options
Now you can finance the total amount of your solar system with a 0% down payment and $0 out of pocket.
Net Metering
What is Net Metering.
Net metering is a billing mechanism that credits solar energy system owners for the electricity they add to the grid. For example, if a residential customer has a PV (Photovoltaic) system on their roof, it may generate more electricity than the home uses during daylight hours. If the home is net-metered, the electricity meter will run backwards to provide a credit against what electricity is consumed at night or other periods when the home's electricity use exceeds the system's output. Customers are only billed for their "net" energy use.
How Does Net Metering Work
When your solar power system generates more electricity than you use over the course of a month, you will receive a credit based on the net number of kilowatt-hours you gave back to the grid. If you produce less electricity than you use in a given month, you must buy electricity from your utility to make up the difference. In these instances, you would pay for the electricity you use, minus any excess electricity your solar panels generated.
- In Florida, homeowners cannot get credit for more electricity than they used from the grid in a given month, but extra credit does roll over to the next month’s bill at the full retail rate. At the end of each calendar year, any leftover credits are paid to the solar owner at a lower rate based on the utility’s wholesale energy cost—generally around 3 to 4 cents per kilowatt-hour.
- If the solar system owner is in a participating Electric Co-op, they may receive dollar for dollar at the end of the calendar year for the excess electricity generated by their solar system.
Best Practice for Net Metering
Your Energy Management consultant must properly size your solar system to cover your average kW usage and surpass it up to the allowed offset by the electrical company. Therefore, if you are allowed to offset at 115% of your kW usage you will be generating more energy than you use and are able to take advantage of Net Metering.
HOW SOLAR ENERGY WORKS
Converting DC to AC
- Solar panels are usually made from silicon installed in a metal panel frame with a glass casing. When photons, or particles of light, hit the thin layer of silicon on the top of a solar panel, they knock electrons off the silicon atoms.
- Inside each solar panel is a conductive metal plate connected to wires that lead to a fused array combiner. Energy from the array is sent through an inverter, which transforms the initial direct electrical current (DC) into the alternating electrical current (AC) required to power all the appliances that are plugged into your normal wall sockets.
For our younger crowd Meet Sunny
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