New report on PV owner benefits

The Massachusetts  Dept . of Energy Resources has released a long awaited report on the economic impacts of Residential PV  ownership vs. those for the Third Party lease model. The report was done by an objective group of consultants using an apples to apples...

Senator Downing meets BPVS Intern

Senator Ben Downing met with BPVS summer intern, Ryan Puckett yesterday. Ryan has completed excellent research work this summer on the emissions deferral from solar clean energy systems and on historic residential electric rates; his work is featured in earlier news...

How will PV supplement my electric usage?

Attached is our updated spreadsheet allowing you to quickly get a sense of how much of your electricity usage could be supplemented by varying sizes of PV systems.   Not only will this chart give you estimates on the amount of electricity that a PV system could...

Massachusetts Residential Electricity Prices

Attached is a graph showing the trend in average electricity prices (cents per kWh) in Massachusetts since 1990. The average annual price increase is 2.26% each year however some years have experienced volatile price swings with the greatest price increase happening...

Updated Clean Energy Stats

Here is the PDF link to the updated version of our “Clean Energy Stats” analysis. This analysis covers the average yearly electricity output from a nominal 1 kW solar PV system  for the last ten years including  2012 reports and then calculates the environmental...