Going Green!

It's official!  We're going green!  Solar City Reps came out today to take measurements to take back to their architects to draw up our blueprints and in about sixish months they'll be back to start installing!  

So excited for this to finally come about, for years we have wanted to go solar with our energy.  We tried with our home in Schenectady, but thanks to the ancient trees that blocked almost all the sun from coming into our yard we were shot down.  

Now that we are in this house one of the first things we did was contact a few different companies to get our options and after about a year of looking and researching we settled on Solar City (through One Block Off the Grid) because of the great deal they (OBOTG) were offering and the different payment plans they offered.  

So awesome!  The panels are mostly going to be put on the left hand side of the garage roof and some on the roof of our house where they will be getting the most sunshine.  

In the end it should look something like this...

Photo Courtesy of One Block Off the Grid

This project should be offsetting about 60% of the energy we are currently receiving from our power company.  

So hand in hand with this we are going to be getting a home energy inspection some time next month from Solar City so they can show us different ways to cut our energy usage even more.  Can't wait to see what kind of suggestions they give us (besides getting doors that fully fit in the frame and windows that are  properly installed LOL).  


It's fun being able to see how we can take further control of the money we are spending, not to mention that great feeling of doing something better for the environment!


Next up: Electric Car.