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by Lyndsay Ulin

Stone Church Solar Project

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Stone Church is a gathering place for community and music, transforming over the years through many iterations from church to a music hall, where we now transform sunlight into clean renewable electricity to power our business!

Since August of 2019 we have stepped up our sustainable practices by offsetting a portion of our electrical usage with solar panels. We worked with Brentwood, NH-based ReVision Energy to install a 25.92-kilowatt grid-tied solar electric system.

When the sun is shining, the 81 solar panels on the roof of our building produce electricity that is either used in real-time by the Stone Church, or fed back to the grid where it benefits our community (and earns us a credit). Each year, the system will generate roughly 32,500 kilowatt-hours (kWhs) of electricity, offsetting the equivalent of over 56,000 miles driven in a gas-powered car.

EV Charging Station Outside Of Stone Chuch In NH

With the help of a USDA REAP Grant, this project will be cash flow positive after the first year, and will save the Stone Church over $100,000 over the lifetime of the system. Combined with efficient air source heat pumps for heating and cooling, we’re also reducing our dependence on fossil fuels along with our carbon footprint by over 30,000 pounds of carbon pollution every year. In addition, an EV charger helps customers and our team travel to and from our location emission free! With solar, Stone Church is fortified for the future, and helping support the health of our planet!

To see what our system is producing, both today and across its lifetime, click here!

Hanover is One Step Closer to 100

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The Town of Hanover, NH has just achieved another important milestone in their transition to 100% renewable energy with the installation of a 66.4 kilowatt solar array on the roof of the Fire Department. “The Town’s goal is to install a total of 3 Megawatts in municipal rooftop and ground-mounted solar which will fully provision the Town’s electricity consumption,” says Town Manager Julia Griffin who has been a leader in prioritizing investment in renewable energy infrastructure in Hanover.

While strong support from leadership is essential to their objective, the Town’s drive for sustainability comes directly from the community itself. Hanover became the first municipality in the nation to commit to Ready for 100 goals by means of a popular vote in 2017.

“The Town of Hanover is committed to solarizing every municipal building rooftop in our inventory as we ‘walk the talk’ toward the entire community’s commitment to utilizing 100% green electricity by 2030,” says Julia. Their Ready for 100 pledge also includes reaching 100% renewable energy for all energy sources including heating and transportation by the year 2050.

Hanover is already well on its way to its goals. Julia calls the Fire Station array “just the next step in the Town’s walk,” joining arrays on the Police Department, Water Reclamation Facility, Town Hall, Salt Storage Building and Heavy Equipment Building. Power Purchase Agreements for the projects have allowed the town to purchase electricity from the arrays at a competitive rate, with the option to buy the projects at a significant reduction in price in 5-7 years and own them outright, along with all the power they produce.

The new 183-panel array installed in May on the Lyme Road Police and Fire Headquarters will produce roughly 73,961 kilowatt-hours annually to offset electricity use on site, with any excess being fed back to the grid to benefit surrounding businesses and residences. The array was designed in three sections to accommodate the different roof surfaces, with two sections of ballasted arrays on the flat rooftops, and 34 of the panels on the sloped shingle roof facing the road. While most of the array is hidden from view, the 34 panels framing the entrance to the public safety complex will serve as a visible symbol of Hanover’s commitment to clean energy.

Other initiatives to increase the renewable energy portfolio for the Town have included multiple Solarize campaigns to make residential solar more accessible for homeowners, and energy efficiency awareness campaigns, for both homeowners and businesses. Hanover’s collegiate partner Dartmouth has close to a half-Megawatt of solar already installed on its own rooftops, and partnering with them may open an opportunity for Hanover to purchase green, renewable energy that will be affordable for local businesses and homes that are unable to go solar on site.

Julia noted that producing a significant portion of the energy they consume locally was important, to ensure they are contributing to a renewable energy grid and not just drawing from it. Locally harvested solar energy not only helps fortify the grid locally, but benefits the taxpayers in long-term cost savings over the 40+ year lifespan of the systems. With systems already installed and more municipal systems in the works including a 2-Megawatt ground-mounted array, Hanover can expect energy savings in the millions, with the beacon of fully offsetting all of their carbon emissions as a guiding light. The future is looking sunny for Hanover.

Canterbury, NH Couple’s 100% Solar Home is Heart of Sustainable Lifestyle

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Beth McGuinn and Ruth Smith’s house looks like a regular house – and for that exact reason, says Ruth, it often surprises their guests. She and her wife Beth live in Canterbury, NH in a home they designed in “classic New England” style. It’s a two story saltbox house with beautiful natural wood shingle and clapboard siding, with a woodstove for heat, and a garden in the yard. It is set apart by the very intentional design to maximize efficiency – and the rooftop solar array that powers 100% of their energy needs.

Solar was always part of the plan when Beth and Ruth started looking at building their own home. Sustainability had long been a shared goal, both personally and professionally. Beth is the Executive Director of the Five Rivers Conservation Land Trust, and Ruth is the Master Gardner Program Coordinator for UNH Cooperative Extension and worked for NH Audubon for over 20 years.

Both can recall their interest in renewable energy starting early. Ruth’s parents installed a solar hot water system on their roof in the early ’80s despite the somewhat “crunchy” reputation solar had at the time, and Beth can recall a high school physics project that sparked her interest in leaving fossil fuels behind for renewables. “It just seemed like the answer to me, but I had to shelve that for close to 30 years before I could act on it,” she says.

Plan Ahead for Solar with ReVision

A solar design consultant helped them optimize their home before it was even constructed, designing it to fit their specific property. It resulted in a home that while looking and acting like any other New England house, has that “intentionality” to it that visitors always notice. Their house doesn’t face the road like most others – it faces the sun. Large southern windows maximize passive solar gain, while good insulation and smaller northern windows help retain it. The southern roof was perfectly set up for solar when it came time to add it.

Beth and Ruth interviewed four other solar companies, but chose ReVision not just for the quality of our work, but ultimately because they knew they could count on ReVision being around for the future. Beth recalls that their solar hot water system had an issue on a Saturday evening, and their ReVision service specialist was out to the house within 2 hours of their call to fix it. “It proved clearly for me that I had chosen the right company,” she says.

They started with a solar hot water system in 2011 with money they had saved up, and used the tax credit and rebate from that project to invest in a 16-panel PV system the following year that produced more electricity than they were using at the time. When Beth traded her car for an electric hybrid in 2016 they expanded the array with another 6 panels, and came out of the transition at net zero.

100% Solar Power Gives Peace of Mind

Ruth looks at their solar installations as not just an environmental project but as a retirement investment. It will give them a retirement free of electricity payments, and puts their money into something that supports the values they live. Ruth says, “Two women on nonprofit salaries made this happen. And it’s not a crazy architectural design – it’s a house that a lot of people would be comfortable living in. A lot of people could do this, it doesn’t have to be the super rich or the super crunchy folks.”

They have not had to sacrifice in their home to keep their electrical usage in line with what they produce – along with the car and usual home electrical use, the solar array powers three large freezers that store summertime harvests from their garden. “It’s an important part of how we live lightly on the land and live our values.” Beth says. “Apple sauce, tomato sauce, broccoli – you name it, we’ve got it in the freezer.” They buy locally raised meats and raise their own chickens. Even an electric lawnmower helps trim their carbon footprint. As Ruth says, “It’s free energy. We don’t have to buy gas for that anymore.”

Lifelong educators and advocates, Beth and Ruth love to share their solar sustainability story with family, friends, and the community, and have referred many people to ReVision for a solar array of their own, as well as let hundreds of people tour their home to see how solar works for them. “It’s been fun to model that for people,” says Ruth.

Like the 100% solar home, Beth plans someday to have a fully electric vehicle, charged on solar power. Ruth notes they’ll need a few more solar panels when that happens – with the rooftop already filled from edge to edge, Beth is planning a ground mount for their next installation. She says, “I have the place all picked out.”

Veterans at ReVision Energy Attracted to Mission

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ReVision Energy Honored For Support Of Military Service Members

Brigadier General (Ret) John G. Pappas (left) presents the Patriotic Award to ReVision Energy NH-Branch Manager Heather Fournier (center), with ReVision Energy Renewable Energy Advisor Kayla Wernig (right).

When Kayla Wernig first heard of ReVision Energy in 2016, she was looking for quotes on a solar installation for her home, not a job. Finding that ReVision did not have a veteran discount program at the time, like some retailers, she suggested it to management at the New Hampshire branch where she lives.

The company embraced the idea and working collaboratively with Kayla and other stakeholders, developed our veterans discount program, called Solar Salute .

Today, Kayla is not just a happy customer but a full-time ReVision employee, working in a field that is deeply important to her.

“I came home from the Middle East in 2013 and my already present interest in renewable energy was heightened,” she said. “Renewable energy is extremely important in global security and protecting my brothers and sisters in arms. Growing the presence of renewable energy was my solution as a veteran to help not only our climate, but to help reduce the need for my brothers and sisters in arms to be deployed to the Middle East.”

Since helping create Solar Salute and joining the ReVision team, Kayla has worked to spread the word about the company’s vision of a 100% clean energy future. She organizes countless public education events in communities around New Hampshire for homeowners of all kinds and works with fellow veterans in helping them save money and become energy-independent by adopting solar and complementary clean technologies.

Veterans Form a Core Part of the Clean Energy Transition

ReVision Energy employee Greg Wortman snapped this image while deployed in Iraq.

Mirroring national trends , ReVision Energy is proud to employ a number of veterans in our workforce. Veterans, like all of our employees, come to us for a myriad of reasons, but particularly appealing to many is our company’s commitment to a shared mission.

Greg Wortman, manager of the Brentwood ReVision warehouse, said that he came to ReVision after his service because he wanted to do something good for the community and liked that the company was working for positive change. The close-knit, family-like community of people passionate about a cause, similar to what he experienced in the army, appealed to him.

Greg remarks that “I care about clean energy because I saw incredibly poor communities struggling with no electricity or limited electricity while living in either a desert or open farmlands. Electricity and clean water were used as tools of manipulation to control populations and exert force and subjugate people. I remember thinking that if people simply had access to solar, a lot of their problems would be solved and they could harness clean energy without being controlled by others.”

Similarly, Electrical Apprentice and Project Manager, Chris Lee, who served in the US Army Reserves, says that being involved in renewable energy appealed to him after his service, not just for the health of the planet but because it is a non-controversial source of energy. “It’s power without politics,” he said. Chris has ReVision-installed solar panels on his own home and drives an all-electric Nissan Leaf.

Fossil Fuel Reliance Is a Threat to Our World

The Pentagon has called climate change a “threat multiplier” that destabilizes regions and “poses immediate risks to U.S. national security.” Regions that are most strained by the effects of climate change, like drought and resulting food insecurity, can become destabilized and fall into political conflict. Further, dependence on fossil fuel on the battlefield (for fueling vehicles and bases) is itself a mighty challenge.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, is the fact that the Department of Defense is moving forward on significant efforts to transition all branches of the military away from oil use . Lt. Col. Wayne Kinsel, head of the infrastructure unit of the Air Force Asset Management Division for Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection, says of their efforts to invest in renewable energy – “It’s really not political.”

On this Veterans Day, ReVision Energy salutes the many current and former service members in New England and beyond who have risked their lives abroad to keep us safe. We look forward to working with you to achieve energy independence at home.

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