Soveren – Southern Vermont Renewable Energy
At Soveren, we care about helping our local community become more sustainable. In our personal lives, we buy from local farms and dairies and try to be as involved as possible in making our community a better place to live. One of the ways that we accomplish this is by installing solar systems. What started out as a way to fulfill a belief system has turned into a company! We feel priviledged to be a part of making Southern Vermont greener. And also to have the possibiliy of creating jobs for people in our area.
As a company, we specialize in capturing and storing sunlight to convert into electricity for personal or commercial use. In other terms, we design and install systems that will replace your electricity bill, and protect against future electricity cost increases.
We do everything we can to maximize the financial support that our customers receive from government agencies. We file for state incentives, give you the paperwork to claim the federal tax credit and help you fill out the paperwork to claim a tax grant if you want that in lieu of a credit. And when appropriate, we apply for REAP grants on behalf of our customers too.
We are also in the process of creating a new program called Vermont Community Solar. Under this program, people will be able to own portions of a larger system, thus allowing people without a good location of their own to generate clean electricity and receive the benefits as if the system were on their roof or backyard.
During your initial free consultation, we will review your current system and discuss all your options. This consultation includes a site visit where we will see where on your land a system could be installed and what your current usage is so we can properly size the system. At a follow-up meeting we will discuss the cost of the proposed system and the federal and state incentives you may qualify for and well as all grant options.
The Solar design process is complex – that is why the State of Vermont requires that to qualify for State incentives, systems must be designed and installed by certified Solar Partners.
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