Environmental Benefits
Save money, save the environment
Everyone's trying to go green—through recycling, creating less waste, using less fossil fuel. But converting your home to solar energy is one of the most significant ways you can go green and stay green. Solar energy reduces your impact on the environment—and that helps combat global warming.
Decrease greenhouse gasses
Utility-generated electricity is the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and it's also responsible for approximately 40% of our country's annual carbon emissions. However, solar energy offsets the amount of electricity you draw from the grid, decreasing greenhouse gasses emitted. Unlike coal, natural gas, nuclear or petroleum, solar energy produces no harmful byproducts. And it's a completely renewable resource.
Good for your home, great for the planet
Using the sun to produce clean, waste-free electricity for your home reduces your carbon footprint. An average residential home solar power system (5 kW) has environmental benefits equivalent to:
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Offsetting 240,000 pounds of toxic greenhouse gasses (CO2, SO2 and NOx)
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Removing 31 cars from our roads |
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Planting 34 acres of tropical rainforest |
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= 2,000lbs