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Electrifying News!
"Farm-Way and Vermont Gear", with the help of the "Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund", have invested over $450,000 in our solar panel project from a company in White River Junction, Vermont. We are generating approximately 58 KW of power, which is equivalent to 43% of our electrical power consumption.
{In April of 2009 we produced 59% and September was at 54%}
Lifetime of our solar system has produced just under 50% of consumption.
Our utility usage is $33000 per year , and with our solar production , we will save approximately $14000 annually towards this cost .
Grant money of $226000 from the Vermont Clean energy fund helped get this project off the ground and was received in May of 2008.
We are extremely excited about this venture we have taken, and had begun construction of this system in mid October of 2008 , and began collecting power from our system by the end of December 2008.
It is constructed with 308 panels in a portion of our adjacent field, leaving room to expand the system in the future to perhaps compensate for 100% of our electrical utility needs.
Payback is expected in approximately 10-15 years.
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...
One of our latest ventures has been with installing L.E.D replacements for flourescent lighting in the store from www.leddynamics.com
