Programs Let Homes Produce Green Power

This is a program that should be available in every state and should be heavily subsidized for home and property-owners, like landlords, making less than $100,000/year and not through tax right-offs, but directly, through grants and rock-bottom interest rate loans.

Tax incentives are fine for people making more than $100,000/ year.

Programs like this are essential for the welfare of the nation and its citizens.

This is an emergency and we should behave accordingly.

Programs Let Homes Produce Green Power:

January 22, 2007 by the Associated Press
by Michael Hill

When the sun shines bright on their home in New York's Hudson Valley, John and Anna Bagnall live out a homeowner's fantasy. Their electricity meter runs backward.

Solar panels on their barn roof can often provide enough for all their electricity needs. Sometimes — and this is the best part — their solar setup actually pushes power back into the system. The Bagnalls 'net meter,' a state-sanctioned setup that allows homeowners to adopt renewable energy without taking the more radical step of disconnecting from their local electric utility, Central Hudson Gas & Electric.