Installing Solar Panels

Before Jeff Wilson even broke ground on the Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) of his 70-year-old Cape Cod home, he started planning for solar panels. This allowed time to apply for tax credits and incentives that essentially drove the cost of the $32,000 system down to $14,000. After solar specialists evaluated Jeff's property and estimated that a system would be 89 percent efficient given some minor obstacles such as trees — and uncontrollable factors like cloudy Ohio winters — the system was designed and installed.