Benefits beyond the satisfaction of watching your meter spin backwards:
Increase your property equity and resale value.
It's absolutely exempt from property tax.
Receive a California State cash rebate.
Receive a Federal tax incentive of 30% of your project cost (less rebate).
Stabilize you energy costs for the life of the system: Install your own "green hedge" against inevitable future rate hikes. The faster energy rates rise, the faster your solar electric system pays for itself.
Enjoy low maintenance and clean energy production.
The solar energy you produce beyond your immediate household or business needs is credited to your PG&E account and allows your neighbors and community to enjoy a greener electricity mix while you save money.
It's absolutely exempt from property tax.
Receive a California State cash rebate.
Receive a Federal tax incentive of 30% of your project cost (less rebate).
Stabilize you energy costs for the life of the system: Install your own "green hedge" against inevitable future rate hikes. The faster energy rates rise, the faster your solar electric system pays for itself.
Enjoy low maintenance and clean energy production.
The solar energy you produce beyond your immediate household or business needs is credited to your PG&E account and allows your neighbors and community to enjoy a greener electricity mix while you save money.
Benefits for the greater good: Salient Facts
A carbon footprint is a measure of our impact on the environment. It is an estimate of the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product. Our carbon footprint is the energy, in carbon units, it takes to produce our food and goods, transport it and us, heat our homes, maintain our lifestyle.
The sun is the ultimate power source, dependable, renewable, sustainable and clean. "Solar energy is as reliable as the sun rise." - Van Jones
Installed solar currently delivers less than a twentieth of 1 percent (0.0005) of U.S. electricity - even though one minute of sunlight produces enough to equal the world's electrical usage.
Enough solar energy falls on the earth's surface in one hour to power all of human civilization for a year.
Waiting for the successful commercialization of fusion power? Tap into the only known working fusion reactor in our solar system: the sun. It's completely maintenance-free with billions of years of run-time and an excellent safety record.
The amount of solar radiation striking the earth every 72 hours is equivalent to all the energy stored in our planet's coal, oil, and natural gas reserves.
Installed solar on an area about the size of Los Angeles will provide 100 per cent of current U.S. total power consumption.
Roof top solar decentralizes power production, increases national security and reduces peak demand stresses on the existing grid. As such, there is reduced need for the expense and inherent inefficiency of an ever-expanding "smart" grid.
Each solar kWh produced by your system displaces two to four kWh produced at a conventional power plant. In the first two years, the energy used to manufacture the modules is recouped. Your system provides point-of-use clean energy, extremely efficient electrical production.
Each installed solar kWh is roughly equivalent to planting 6 full-grown trees.
A residential 3 kW system in its first 25 years will displace about 2 million cubic feet of CO2 (124 tons) equivalent to the volume of about 100 million human breaths. That means lifetimes of fresh air.
Nationwide, buildings are responsible for 36% of energy use, 30% greenhouse gas emissions, 30% of waste production. Cities are responsible for 75% of carbon emissions.
Pollution, especially from cars and from making electricity, is a major cause of global warming. The United States has the highest per capita energy use in the world (20.6 CO2 tons), followed by Canada (20.0 tons), Russia (10.6 tons), United Kingdom (9.8 tons), France (6.0 tons), and China (3.8 tons).* Other nations use less energy. U.S. households produce 21 percent of our global warming pollution. Our carbon footprint can be efficiently and effectively reduced by putting ourselves on a low carbon diet, where we take personal responsibility to reduce our greenhouse gas production by monitoring what we buy, how and what we drive and how we power our homes. *Human Development Report, One Planet, Once Chance, UNDP, "Report on Global Climate Change, November 1007." http://hdr.undp.org/en/climatechange/
The sun is the ultimate power source, dependable, renewable, sustainable and clean. "Solar energy is as reliable as the sun rise." - Van Jones
Installed solar currently delivers less than a twentieth of 1 percent (0.0005) of U.S. electricity - even though one minute of sunlight produces enough to equal the world's electrical usage.
Enough solar energy falls on the earth's surface in one hour to power all of human civilization for a year.
Waiting for the successful commercialization of fusion power? Tap into the only known working fusion reactor in our solar system: the sun. It's completely maintenance-free with billions of years of run-time and an excellent safety record.
The amount of solar radiation striking the earth every 72 hours is equivalent to all the energy stored in our planet's coal, oil, and natural gas reserves.
Installed solar on an area about the size of Los Angeles will provide 100 per cent of current U.S. total power consumption.
Roof top solar decentralizes power production, increases national security and reduces peak demand stresses on the existing grid. As such, there is reduced need for the expense and inherent inefficiency of an ever-expanding "smart" grid.
Each solar kWh produced by your system displaces two to four kWh produced at a conventional power plant. In the first two years, the energy used to manufacture the modules is recouped. Your system provides point-of-use clean energy, extremely efficient electrical production.
Each installed solar kWh is roughly equivalent to planting 6 full-grown trees.
A residential 3 kW system in its first 25 years will displace about 2 million cubic feet of CO2 (124 tons) equivalent to the volume of about 100 million human breaths. That means lifetimes of fresh air.
Nationwide, buildings are responsible for 36% of energy use, 30% greenhouse gas emissions, 30% of waste production. Cities are responsible for 75% of carbon emissions.