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Home Energy Magazine Online July/August 1998TRENDS PV Roof Tiles Heat Up in New York
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
Frazer Dougherty is owner of North Fork Retrofit, a building performance and related energy service company in Greenport, New York.
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