Electrifying News!

"Farm-Way and Vermont Gear", with the help of the "Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund", have purchased over $400,000 in solar panels to the company in White River Junction, Vermont. We are generating approximately 60 KW of power, which is equivalent to 43% of our electrical power consumption.

We are extremely excited about this venture, and had begun construction of this system in mid October of 2008. We began collecting power from our system by the end of December 2008. It is constructed in a portion of our adjacent field, leaving room to expand the system in the future.

Environmentally, our system allows our local electrical service to avoid 76,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to 11 passenger cars for a year or annually planting over 1500 tree seedlings and growing them for 10 years. This will also allow reductions from the utility power annually of NOX @ 84 pounds and sulfur dioxide @200 pounds.

We now have a public video monitor at our entryway providing continually updated views of the systems output and easily understood information on the benefits of solar. We have also linked our web site to the data and output information in real time, as it happens as you can see on this page. We are extremely excited about this endeavor , and even more so as we watch our compensation for utility power that is being generated with this pasture of power...

A few of our favorites as we look forward to providing as much of our own energy as possible and cleaning up our earth.