Tag Archives: savings
Energy Benchmarking: $9 Billion Savings Potential
Energy benchmarking can unlock $9 billion in energy savings by 2020, suggests a recent report by the Institute of Market Transformation. Despite our lofty aspirations of energy independence and tackling global climate change, we are only beginning to implement the first step in the multifamily building sector – understanding our energy use. Multifamily housing has [...]
Solar Savings Used to Fund Teachers Salaries in California
California is one of the top solar states in the United States, and it is now using solar to do more than reduce carbon dioxide emissions and generate electricity. The California school system, which has struggled with constant budget reductions in recent years, has found that solar installations can free up money to keep teachers [...]
Residential PV Federal Tax Credit
At GoGreenSolar.com, we are often asked about the federal tax credits that apply to customers who use solar electric systems to power their homes. Though we’re not tax experts, we’ve spent some time gathering information about these federal tax incentives for residential PV installations. Here’s what we’ve learned: The federal government offers tax credits to [...]
Electric Cars= $1 a Gallon Gas for Life + $1,200 Cash per Year
Green advocates may tout the many benefits of owning an electric car but for those with a love for internal combustion engine-run vehicles, it’s no contest. EVs are more expensive than gasoline-based cars, their range is limited and the hassle of plugging them in for a charge just doesn’t seem worth it. A new study [...]
15 California Schools Go Solar
Solar energy is now electrifying 15, K-12 schools in South San Francisco’s Unified School District. Combined with energy efficiency retrofits, the district will save $20 million in utility bills over 25 years. Solar panels are on elementary, middle, and high schools across the district, producing a total 1.68 megawatts (MW). That will cut its fossil fuel use in half. In 2010, voters [...]
Top 5 Reasons People Go Solar
Did you know that most solar customers are not rich? Most have an annual household income under six figures, and way below that $150,000 mark many consider wealthy. What’s more, 70 percent say they’re actually penny-pinchers, or, to be polite about it, “savvy spenders.” These are just two observations reported in a new infographic released [...]
Appliance Standards: Saving $1 Trillion by 2035
There is a great debate amongst utilities about how to get customers, large and small, to cut peak load. There are carrot approaches, such as rebates, and then there are sticks, like mandatory commercial critical peak pricing. Another approach, which is more long-term and not discussed as often, is increasing appliance and equipment standards for [...]
Mitt Romney Could Be $89,000 RICHER if He Went Solar
Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney makes more money in one day than the average American makes in a year. With $20.9 million in income last year and a lower tax rate than most middle-class Americans, perhaps he’d be willing to join the thousands of homeowners around the country who are investing in solar? A [...]
Extra Electricity Bills Make Solar Look Even Better
Not every family has to worry about owning and maintaining two properties. It is usually more common in regions of the central and western U.S. where real estate prices are generally lower. Many people might think that anyone who can afford two homes would not need to worry about electricity bills, but particularly in those [...]