Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Solar electricity is great!

The Summit Resort Group building has a new 9.2 Kilowatt Photovoltaic power system. It truely has been an adventure in a good sense. Stop in and see us and ask for a tour of the power of the future. The following is a list of some of its remarkable traits:
It is a $60,000 system that cost me $13,000 after the rebates.
It works even with 3 inches of snow on it.
It makes more juice than we use so Xcel buys the overflow from me.
It makes me happy when I see Xcel trucks.
It saves me close to $200 per month on power.
I feel part of the future and moving away from Coal power.
It takes 1 pound of coal to make a Kilowatt hour.
On sunny days my system makes 50 KWHs.
There are many other fun facts but the big one is, It is great fun to be the first one in town with a really cool thing.