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We love partnering with local, mission-driven organizations, especially one that shares our commitment to strengthening communities and protecting the planet. And we’ve been partnering with the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) for over a decade – their first solar installation with ReVision was way back in 2015, a 73 kW array at Cardigan Mountain Lodge.
Many ReVision employee-owners love hiking, skiing, and camping in the AMC network. For years, we’ve met other AMC members at lodges, said hello on the trails, and helped transform AMC’s energy production into one that is clean, reliable, and future-proofed.
As regular blog readers may know, ReVision offers discounts to employees of our commercial solar partners. Employees of solarized companies like Bangor Savings Bank, PROCON, and Trillium Brewing can access special offers to install solar, heat pumps, or battery storage on their own homes. Employees of Appalachian Mountain Club obviously qualified, but the exciting news – we’re now extending that offer to all AMC members.
To celebrate AMC’s 150th anniversary, AMC members in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts are eligible for a special discount on clean energy technologies from ReVision Energy: $500 off solar, $500 off battery storage, and $250 off heat pumps.
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Since that first 2015 installation, we’ve continued our partnership with AMC through a variety of educational workshops, outdoor events, and additional solar installations. In 2023 we installed rooftop and ground mount arrays for AMC’s Highland Center in Crawford Notch, and in 2024 we solarized their Cold River Camps.
“I’m pretty fortunate that I grew up with the AMC in my life,” says ReVision’s Project Manager Travis Genatossio. “My parents would always take us out into the wilderness for hiking, canoeing, backpacking. So from an early age, we were family members of the Appalachian Mountain Club. I also went to college here in New Hampshire, and we spent a lot of time participating in the services that the AMC offers. So I personally have benefited from places like the Highland Center Lodge in the wintertime as a refuge under cold icy conditions, and in the summertime with the hut system.
Being able to provide, through my career, solar energy systems the AMC was particularly special because I have been connected with them for a long time.”
In total, AMC now has 496 solar panels, producing an estimated 234,168 kilowatt-hours of clean solar energy every year. In addition to proving their commitment to our planet’s preservation, their solar also reduces their electric bills, allowing them to put more money into services and events for members.
“Partnering with an organization like the AMC is great,” says Solar Consultant David Webb, who has helped many New Hampshire nonprofits go solar. “Anything that we can do to help them lower their operating expenses will help the viability of the organization in the long term. And AMC has been around since the late 1800s, so they know a few things about longterm stability!”
AMC’s Solar Stats:
Cardigan Mountain Lodge (2015):
- Size: 73.20 kW DC
- Estimated Annual Generation: 86,888 kWh est annual generation
- 240 panels
Highland Center Lodge (2023)
- Size: 94kW DC
- Estimated Annual Generation: 118,151 kWh
- 160 panels on a ground mount, 44 panels in their rooftop system
Cold River Camps (2024)
- Size: 24.96 kW DC
- Estimated Annual Generation: 29,129 kWh
- 52 Panels
Total:
- 192.2 kW 496 solar panels
- 234,168 kWh annual production
- Offsetting 346,844 pounds of carbon each year
- Equivalent to the carbon sequestered by 2600 tree seedlings, or 158 acres of forest.
