Wednesday, January 2, 2008

SOLAR INSTALLED!

Big news...

After months of planning, my home now has a solar system thanks to AMECO, a local solar company based out of Signal Hill. AMECO installed a 3.75 kilowatt system on our roof, Dec. 27th and 28th--just in time to end 2007 with a green "bang!" What a thrill to see this project come to fruition and to be producing energy from the sun.

I learned a lot on this journey, including how to decipher my electric bill. Thanks to Todd Fanady at AMECO, I now understand the different tiers and why our bills were so high (pool pump, no insulation on our roof, electric heater, A/C etc.). In a future posting I will write a piece called "How to Read an Electric Bill." Many folks aren't aware of the high costs they incur when they're in the high tiers. Getting into the lower ones does take effort (finding the electric hogs), but it is possible.

Pictures of our installation coming soon...

Happy New Year!

Ameco Solar website

1 comment:

Rena said...

Waiting to see your photos, Sarojni !