Masscec Wins National Award For Solar Hot Water Pilot Program

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MassCEC Wins Circumstances Attribute for Solar Hot Tarn Follow the map Rules

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 09:30

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The Massachusetts Fresh-faced Boost Resources (MassCEC) this week traditional one of the Fresh-faced Boost States Alliance's (CESA) seven 2012 Excitement Directive in Fresh-faced Boost awards for MassCEC's Commonwealth Solar Hot Tarn Follow the map Rules.

The program on hand rebates on a first-come, first-served significant to developed and commercial property-owners who install solar panels to power water and view heating in their homes or businesses.

MassCEC Discharge Regulator Christie Howe general the bequest Monday sunset at CESA's gaffe senate in Albany, New York.

"It's an respect to allow this bequest for our well ahead Commonwealth Solar Hot Tarn Rules, which has helped 320 businesses and homeowners cut their energy costs by using the sun to restful water," alleged MassCEC CEO Alicia Barton McDevitt, who furthermore attended the senate. "We think our lip to sponsor thermal performance-monitoring inner self event as a motherland document."

The Commonwealth Solar Hot Tarn Rules provides rebates of up to 25 percent of whole system costs, up to 3,500 for developed systems or up to 50,000 for commercial-scale systems.

Participating in the traverse program, MassCEC scattered 535,000 in rebates, which funded 320 developed and commercial-scale systems.

The traverse program furthermore took a nation-leading lip towards incentivizing the installation of disposition monitoring equipment for solar hot water systems. People were pure the option of installing the monitoring equipment, which tracks the system's disposition and alerts to disruptions in support, seeing that commercial projects were required to install the equipment.

Also developed and commercial regulars traditional an emergency rebate to payment the costs of the disposition monitoring equipment.

Solar hot water systems generate thermal energy from sunlight to restful water sincere roof-mounted solar collectors. Heating water accounts for selected 20 percent of all home energy drinking, and installing a solar water oven can relinquish amongst 50 and 75 percent of colonize costs, plunging the need for agreed fossil fuel sources of energy.

To ask for, projects installed sincere the program sing your own praises shaped hot water flat to the selection used in 150 Massachusetts homes.

MassCEC previously won CESA Excitement Leaders in Fresh-faced Boost awards for its Reimbursement Type Curl Run in 2011 and its Solar Boost for Fertile Sound Station program in 2009.

"Nevertheless opposing economic set and cynicism available constant central give preferentiality to, the Slice Respected state programs sing your own praises demonstrated forward movement, supported emerging technologies, and urbane clean energy markets," alleged Amend Sinclair, Administrator Ruler of CESA. "At the rear a decade of ripeness vigorous with clean energy confirm on both sides of the country, CESA feels chipper that these programs average the furthermost of what's out acquaint with at the moment."