Solar For Non Profit

For the nonprofit page. The small rooftop solar array is the small rural church in Alabama, the larger rooftop array is a church in Atlanta

Non Profits such as churches, community groups and specialty service providers are great candidates for Grid tied solar systems. Their challenge is the upfront monies to get the system installed, they all struggle for funds. What has proven interesting is quite often these facilities pay a higher rate for power due to their schedules and big startup surges. They are often on a Light Industrial rates which are much higher than residential. Below you will find two examples of churches we installed grid tied solar.

Small Rural Alabama Church

This church was being hammered by Alabama Power with commercial rates. They had requested numerous times for a review to get their rates change and the Power company said no, that is until the church had a medium sized Grid Tied Solar system installed. Suddenly they were willing to reduce the rates ( do not think they ever did ). Once installed their bill dropped a lot. Then we showed them how to turn on the facility in the mornings without any surges, reducing peak power charges.  This system has been performing for 10 years and has long since paid for itself.  

Atlanta Church

Bigger churches, bigger power bills. This churches administration offices were paying thousands of dollars every month at Ga Power’s Light Industrial rate. The flat white TPO roof made an excellent location for their 62 KW Grid tied system. We used a high quality commercial bifacial panel that will pick up some additional performance from the roof and wired it into two high quality 208 volt inverters. This system will reduce monthly power bills significantly and pay for itself in 6 years. Systems expected life, 30+ years. This facility also qualified for a 30% rebate.