I just met with a fellow at the house who conducts solar assessments for residential homes. I’m hoping that my budget allows me to put some up. The payback is a long time, but I’m not looking strictly at that. I’m hoping to go a bit more green, to offset some monthly bills, and to perhaps help further the technology. Some have to adopt the technology for it to lower in price and eventually out-compete more traditional forms of power generation. I’ll post the assessment once I have it, just in case anyone is interested.
To get things started, I called my local power company, which happens to be WE Energies. They forwarded me to FocusOnEnergy, an outfit that is paid for via a levy that was forced on Wisconsin power companies by state law. In other words, the power companies pay for FocusOnEnergy, but they wouldn’t be doing so if they weren’t forced to by law. They paid for 50% of the solar assessment, which is great. It only cost me $200 to get it done. And the assessment itself gives me detailed information about what sort of panels would work for the house, where they should go, how much power I can expect them to generate, and what rebates and credits I’m entitled to.
I’m also paying for a home energy audit. That guy’s coming tomorrow, and I’ll share info about that process as well.
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Why would the utility pay for it if it wasn’t law?
Well, I suppose they wouldn’t. I was just detailing the arrangement, I suppose. I thought at first that FocusOnEnergy was a State-funded operation paid with tax dollars. But it’s not. It’s funded directly from the energy companies that operate in Wisconsin. It just seemed like a detail worth mentioning.