Solar Project

 David's brother-in-law works for a Solar company and has been telling us the amazing investment value of solar panels for the last little while. We finally decided to go ahead with it, in partnership with David's sister and husband. We were able to lock into the last of the great rates that Ontario Hydro was committing to pay out for 20 years and after lots of paperwork the project was delivered a couple weeks ago. It's still in the process of getting hooked up by the electrician before it starts working...but soon I'll have even more reason to enjoy sunny days!

We'll sell all of the power back to "Hydro" at a really good rate and than buy the power for our house back at about 1/6 of the price. I'm still not sure how that works. There must be some crazy government subsidizing going on somewhere for the power companies! Anyways...my dad's been wanting to see pictures, so here's where we are so far. 

 The truck that brought the main parts. Our neighbor is amazing and let them park in his driveway!

 We own a small part of an open field in the back of our lot...the perfect spot for a solar project. It's tucked away so we can't even see it from our house at all!

 The guys used a front loader to bring stuff down the field from the truck.

 There are two panels, this one on the right and the other on the left.

 We showed the project to some of the kids we work with and they thought it was super cool. The mounds of dirt were especially cool. In the background on the left you can see the trench that leads up to our house. There's (now) a small opening in the trees which leads to our house. Because of measuring the trench for the cable I know that the panels are about 275 feet from our house.