Boston Solar Power? Yup.

If Solar Makes Sense in Snowy Boston, It Can Work Anywhere!

Clean Power Steve Rorem, a homeowner in Gardner, Massachusetts - 40 miles inland from snowy Boston in the Northeastern United States - was fed up with his high heating and electricity bills and looked to a rooftop system using LG's NeON Solar panels to save the day.

 From article, (Steve Rorem, a homeowner in Gardner, Massachusetts — 40 miles inland from snowy Boston in the Northeastern United States — was fed up with his high heating and electricity bills and looked to a rooftop system using LG’s NeON Solar panels to save the day.

Rorem estimates that adding solar panels to his home will slash the cost of heating and electricity for his home from more than $3,300 USD per year to down around $800. While the process and planning of the project were fun with the prospect of saving money hanging out as an exciting opportunity, they did run into several challenges to bringing the project from paper to reality, due to the location of the install.

The heat pump providing heating and cooling for his home was a power hog, but after running through the numbers, Steve was able to offset 76% of his electricity usage with a set of 35 panels. This installation is a perfect case study for how rooftop solar panels can make sense even in snowy, cold, northern cities that don’t enjoy as much sun as areas known for their sunshine like Hawaii or California.

First, while solar panels can turn any light into electricity regardless of the temperature outside, they also have to be able to physically stand up to the weather. That is both for the cold temperatures and for the massive amounts of snow that can pile up over the course of a series of nor’easters, like the four that have slammed the east coast of the United States this month.)

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