Soveren – Southern Vermont Renewable Energy
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 solar photovoltaic systems that will replace your electricity bill, and protect against future electricity cost increases.
In the past two years, since Soveren began exclusively installing photovoltaic systems, Soveren has installed over 250kW at residences, farms and small businesses in southern Vermont.
We’ve helped eight small businesses and farms apply for and successfully receive REAP grants, which paid for 25% of the cost of their systems. REAP grants are highly competitive, and Soveren customers in 2011 received all the funding available to the State of Vermont in their category.
We do everything we can to maximize the financial support that our customers receive from government agencies. We file for state incentives, and help you to claim the federal tax credit. And when appropriate, we apply for REAP grants on behalf of our customers too.
Vermont Community Solar
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.
Free Site Visit
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.
We’ve installed systems all over southern Vermont, ranging in size from small personal solar systems to large commercial photovoltaic systems like the one at Harlow Farm. Here is a map of all of Soveren’s solar installations and more information and images of projects.
Contact Us!
Contact us today for a free site visit! 802-869-2500 or info@soveren.org
Company Philosophy
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.
The Team
To learn more about the team, click here