Featured in Store for more – 05-2012

Consume it yourself

Self-consumption: At a time when government subsidy programs like FITs are declining or disappearing at a startling pace, the self-consumption of PV can become an important new selling point for installations. But are there unintended legal or economic impediments to generating your own PV power, and consuming it yourself?

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Jonathan Gifford

07 May 2012

By keeping an eye on microblogging site Twitter, you can quickly get an idea of how people relate to their PV. Like this tweet extolling the environmental virtues of PV: “My Sungevity system has now offset 10,000 pounds of carbon emissions and produced the solar energy equivalent of 120 trees!” And inverters don’t miss out: …

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