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A Perfect Storm is Coming

You can be blown about, or it can be smooth sailing – it is entirely up to you.

The damage will not be from the weather, but it might be as bad as Sandy (pictured). Photograph by NASA.

By George Harvey

A perfect storm is coming to the fossil fuel industry and those […]

An (Almost) New Solar Installer

Ironridge racking system for 10 PV panels

By GET staff

The Sherwin Solar Store is a new solar installer in Essex Junction, Vermont. Or perhaps we should say it is “almost new.” The store’s background can be traced back seventy years, to the opening of Sherwin Electric Company, an organization that proclaims itself […]

SOLAR: 2013 and 2014 Show Dramatic Increases

The rate of expansion of solar power is astonishing. The past couple issues of Green Energy Times reported the amount of new solar capacity in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

We canvassed a number of installers in the area and got responses from five of them, Solar pro, All Earth Renewables, Revision Energy, Sherwin Solar, […]

Solar News for the Solar Capital — Rutland, VT

2014 brings Rutland closer to their designated goal to become the Solar Capital of the Northeast. A rooftop solar farm and a new Solar Center total nearly 240kW of additional solar commissioned in January!

By N.R. Mallery

Rutland’s newest solar farm — at the College of Saint Joseph. The 98.28kW project is a […]

Get More Energy from your Solar in the Winter

By N. R. Mallery

So, you’ve invested in a solar system. Why? To be able to produce clean renewable energy, save on your energy bills, personal energy independence, and you might even have considered the future of the planet in your mix of reasons.

Here comes winter, with snow and ice now covering our solar […]

Bistro Henry is Southern Vermont’s First 100% Solar-powered Restaurant

Staff Article

A system at Bistro Henry in Manchester, Vermont is the largest solar tracking project in the region. It will provide all the energy needed for lighting, refrigeration, and air-conditioning at Bistro Henry, with some left over for heating. With 60kW of PVs, mounted on ten dual-axis AllSun Trackers, the system will produce about […]

G.e.t.ting to Know Your Solar Installers:

Integrated Solar Applications Corp., Brattleboro, VT

Staff Article

Wallace with Apples

This is the first of many in our new feature that we will be running in Green Energy Times, which will be highlighting our local solar installers. …

As one of our longer standing Solar Installation companies in our region we would […]

Solar Power and Heat Pumps

New Inverter Heat Pumps Worth Their “Salt”… Can Triple Solar PV R.O.I.

By Mike Hamlin

New inverter heat pumps are very different from their early predecessors. The new inverter-driven technology enables the heat pump to transfer heat from the outdoors to the indoors extremely efficiently and reliably at temperatures well below 0º. The use of […]

Solarize Putney – Solarize Windham County!

By Daniel Hoviss

The Putney (VT) Energy Committee in partnership with two renewable energy companies presents an affordable alternative to the high up-front cost of solar installations — Solarize Putney. This program seeks to increase the use of small-scale renewable energy in the Putney area. This model will reduce costs for all participants by providing […]

What Costs Less than Renewables?

By George Harvey

People with conventional ideas about renewable power seem to cling to the notion that they are expensive. Such ideas are flat-out wrong. The time has come when renewable power is less expensive than nuclear and fossil fuels.

Green Energy Times has already published articles saying that in many places ordinary people can […]