An Online Tour Through a Solar Home
Solarize Mass is offering tours to help people better understand what having solar looks like in a home.
This was submitted by Wayland Solar Coach Katrien Vander Straeten The first Solar Tour in the Solarize Lincoln-Sudbury-Wayland program, last week Saturday, was a hit. Around 30 people came to the Wolozin-Morrison house in Sudbury to get a closer look at a solar system that was installed by Astrum Solar in May (before the Solarize program kicked in) and has been running for three months now. You may think the rooftop array -- in this case, 24 panels -- is the main event of a solar home tour, but there is a lot more going on behind the scenes. Owner Bob Morrison took his guests into the basement to inspect the solar power meter, which is the entry point of the solar electricity into the house. It is from this meter, which keeps track of …
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