When you want more solar but the house has no more good large enough spots

User: esachsleicher@gmail.com

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 2593 - Get Solar for your House!

We have solar on the family room roof of our house which we installed in 2012 through Solarize Harvard. We added ground source heat pumps in 2018.  Since ground source uses electricity we wanted to add more solar but there was no more good facing roof and too many trees. Though our heat pump heats our water, we found in the spring and fall, when the heat pump is off because we neither need heat or air conditioning, the back up oil burner was going on to heat the water. Solution - solar hot water heater.  It needs only 2 or 3 panels to make enough hot water and we had room for that in a place that will get enough sun.  Inexpensive by comparison to eveything else we have done and break even in about 10 - 12 years or sooner based on the price of oil and electricity