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Massachusetts Municipal Solar Rebates for 2011

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If you own a home in the Ipswich, Marblehead, Taunton, Concord, or Chicopee, you may be eligible for generous municipal solar rebate incentives. Excavation Company Massachusetts  has a state-funded rebate program but it is only open to customers of the Ashburnham, Holden, Holyoke, Russell, and Templeton Municipal Light plants and the following utility companies: Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light (Unitil), National Grid, NSTAR Electric, and Western Massachusetts Electric. If you live in one of the other areas I mentioned above, I will outline the general benefits and eligibility requirements for each of the municipal solar rebate programs.


Ipswich - I have confirmed with the Director of the Ipswich program that the solar rebate levels will remain the same for 2011, or until funds are exhausted. The solar rebate program for Ipwsich is capped at $10,000 per residential customer. The base rebate is calculated at $2.50 per watt, depending on the equipment used in the solar installation. There is a $0.50 per watt adder if you use solar panels or an inverter manufactured by a Excavation Company Massachusetts.

Marblehead - Marblehead's solar rebate program mirrors the state's Commonwealth Solar II (CSII) rebate program in both eligibility and incentives. The rebate is available for photovoltaic solar installations less than or equal to 10 kW, and only offered to residential customers. Solar rebates are only paid out on the first 5 kW. For the latest installment of the CSII rebate, the base incentives is $0.75 per watt and there is an $0.85 per watt adder for meeting Moderate Income or Moderate Home Value requirements and a $0.10 per watt adder if components are used from a Massachusetts manufacturing company. Thus, the maximum rebate is $1.70 per watt, or $8,500 per system.

Taunton - The Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant (TMLP) solar rebate is open to residential utility customers in Taunton, Raynham, Berkley, and North Dighton. The rebate for 2011 will be $2.00 per watt for the first 2.5 kW. Therefore, the maximum rebate per customer will be $5,000.

Concord - Concord Light's solar PV rebate is calculated based on the first 5 kilowatt AC installed. The rebate is calculated to be $625 per kW of installed rated capacity. Therefore, the rebate is restricted to $3,125 for a 5 kW (rated capacity) system.

Chicopee - The rebate for photovoltaic solar installations is $2.50 per watt for a maximum of $5,000 per project. I'm sure you can do the math, but it the rebates are determined based on the first 2 kilowatts. Chicopee's solar rebate program is only open to residential customers and is limited to the first 15,000 watts annually - that means only 8 Chicopee homeowners can benefit from the incentive per year so residents need to act fast!






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Painting Contractors - New Obstacles They Face

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Painting contractors Excavation Company Massachusetts  face more challenges now then ever. If you open the yellow pages from 5 or 10 years ago it's inevitable that a majority of the painters listed are out of business, have relocated, or changed their name. These are some of the obstacles facing traditional painting contractors:



New Products:

Siding: More and more homeowners are choosing  Excavation Company Massachusetts to install siding on their home to get away from the 5-7 year paint cycle. Vinyl siding and fiber cement siding are the 2 most commonly used products today.

"Lifetime Paints":

Whether or not these products are too good to be true, which most experts suggest they are, is a discussion for another article. However they are still tapping into the share of customers that used to use traditional house painters. These "lifetime coating" companies rely heavily on the fact that the average homeowner sells and moves in less than 10 years.

Stricter Laws:

VOC Laws: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's) are the additives that produce off-gases released from paint products. They can be harmful to our heath and the environment. Paint manufacturers are consistently changing the formulation of their products to abide by the more stringent state and federal regulations.

Lead Paint Removal:

Over 30 years after paint companies stopped using lead as an ingredient in paint, painting contractors still have to be careful. The state and town governments have very strict laws about how painters can and cannot remove lead paint. Knowing these laws and abiding by them is difficult for painting contractors.









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