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Home Energy Magazine Online July/August 1998
TRENDS
PV Roof Tiles Heat Up in New York
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| Sunslates like these are making power for a net-metered system in
New York. |
The first residential grid-tied photovoltaic (PV)
system in New York State has been installed on Long Island. In mid-April,
280 PV roofing tiles were installed on an 82-year-old, two-story, 3,600
ft2 home and office in Greenport. The 3.5 kW array of tiles,
which also make up the weatherskin of this building, can produce as much
as 30 kWh per day. The installed cost was about $7 per watt.
With this installation, my wife and I have become
the first customer generators under New York State's net metering bill
(see "Marketing Profitable Home Power," HE
Jan/Feb '98, p. 31), signed last year by Governor Pataki. This bill requires
the state's seven investor-owned utilities to purchase energy at the same
rate at which they sell it, and allows homeowners a state tax credit amounting
to 25% of the cost of the system over five years.
The tiles are marketed under the brand name Sunslates,
and are manufactured by Atlantis Energy Incorporated, a leading producer
of building-integrated PV. According to Steve Coonen of Atlantis, this
is only the company's second project on the East Coast. However, they are
supplying California's Sacramento Municipal Utility District with Sunslates
for 300 houses per year.
Frazer Dougherty is owner of North Fork Retrofit,
a building performance and related energy service company in Greenport,
New York.
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