I’d like to say my ultimate decision to go solar was environmental because that’s an important thing today and an important thing to me,

but really it’s because my whole house is electric and my electric bill was huge.

My house was built in 1901, and when I moved in, it was so drafty we mostly live upstairs. We called the downstairs Siberia and only went downstairs to go to the bathroom! I did a few things with the crawlspace and installed new windows, but my electric bill was still quite large. People around me had suggested different resources like gas or propane, but I’d had them in the past, and they just honestly seemed like another bill.

Solar was an opportunity I thought where I could mix the environmental aspect and have the savings I needed when it came to my monthly electricity bills… and, hopefully, someday have a battery. I can live independently.

My experience with Blossom Solar was great. They gave me all the information I needed to figure out how I was going to finance this thing. They were really forthcoming on how I could expect to see the return on investment, where my incentives would come from.

I had the system put in at the end of the year in 2018 and already had 30% back from the feds within two months. I’m making power, and I’m saving money on my electric bill, so that’s what mattered to me.