Solar in Somerville

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Although the Solarize program was a limited time, I still get questions from people who know I was involved with it and am a solar home owner myself. 

At our last Winter Hill Neighborhood meeting, it came up again. So I thought I'd create a post with the link I want to share with people about this. 

I am often asked about my installer: we went with SunBug, and we are very happy with the system 4+ years later. Everything they estimated about our production is totally still on track, and we remain pleased with the physical installation.

The city program used Solar Flair, another MA company. These folks know our city well now after 100 installations, and understand our permitting and inspection folks. I hear people were happy with them as well. 

One interesting data set for people researching this issue: the MA state organization that tracks "clean energy" tech and programs is the Mass-CEC. They keep a list of all the installations and their cost. So you can see which installers worked in which towns, what the costs were, and so on. Now--keep in mind costs may vary as people had Solarize programs running. or they needed attic structural stuff that might have been in the billing. But at least it's a ballpark of costs and vendors that you can investigate. 

Access the huge spreadsheet of MA installations here: https://www.masscec.com/public-records-requests 

On that page, scroll down to "PV in PTS" link. This is an huge excel spreadsheet you can explore. 

And for those of you who are data nerds and want to know how our New England electricity is generated every day, check this out. That mountain of natural gas we use each day... sigh. https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts .