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Solar Energy for Your Household
If you are about to or have decided to be more eco-conscious, we applaud you. Several lifestyle changes will aid this great decision but installing a solar panel system for your home is by far one of the most effective. In this article, we highlight essential facts on...
Can I Use Solar Power for A Rental Property?
If you are wondering whether or not solar power is beneficial to rental properties, this article is for you. Here, we highlight the benefits of using solar power on your rental property. There are numerous advantages to adding solar panels to any home, whether you...
Deceitful solar installers taking advantage of consumers and government incentives
The solar panels spread haphazardly across the north side of this roof is an example of the unethical approach of some solar energy companies in McHenry and Lake Counties. When done right – sized, located and installed properly – a solar energy system is a great way...
Does your Vernon Hills solar energy production shut down for winter? Hardly
All summer long, the solar panels on your Vernon Hills roof pumped out electricity as you scoffed at the utility company and its costly electric bills. But now, with winter setting in, they’ll have the last laugh of 2019. After all, solar panels don’t work in winter,...
Solar installations reach new high; the water is fine for those thinking about jumping in
Residential solar installations reached a record high of 712 megawatts in the third quarter of 2019 while overall solar photovoltaics installations reached 2.6 gigawatts in the U.S. during that period, according to a report from U.S. Solar Market Insight – Wood...
Should you consider removing the snow from your Antioch solar panels?
Since the panels with most solar energy systems are mounted on pitched roofs, the idea of clearing snow from your Antioch solar panels is generally not the best idea. How to get at the solar panels and accumulated snow is a risky business in the best of conditions....
Federal Tax Incentives for solar energy going, going …
Those people considering the installation of a solar energy system on their home or business may want to get busy and have the system installed now. Federal tax incentives are decreasing and, for residential purposes, going away completely. Federal solar tax credits,...
Daylight’s burning and so are your dollars if you don’t have solar energy system on your Antioch roof
There’s never a bad time to have a solar energy system on the roof of your Antioch home. If the solar panels are up there, they’re soaking in the sunlight and turning it into energy. Correspondingly, they’re casting a protective shield over your wallet. One of the...
You may get a shock from the costs of adding a battery backup system to your solar energy system
You’re preparing to put a solar energy system on your home’s roof, or maybe you already have solar panels up there, and you’re thinking of adding a battery backup system, too. This way you can really ‘stick it to the man’ – the utility companies that relentlessly...
Emerge from coronavirus with solar on your roof
Act before year’s end to maximize federal tax incentives The pandemic will end. It may not seem like it right now but, trust me, it will. When the coronavirus is past us, we will get back to normal. Imagine if your new, post-COVID normal included solar energy panels...