Z-Pots Goes Solar
A local ceramic studio is featured in the latest Sundance Catalog — now both slar and Cow Powered!
We’re excited to partner with local businesses to meet their sustainability goals and Green Energy Times to help spread the good news! Below is an excerpt from a recent GET article about our work with Z-Pots, a wholesale ceramic studio featured in the Sundance catalog, in Brookline.
“The co-owners of Z-pots recently decided to reduce their dependence on outside electricity supplies, even though they were buying Cow Power. They got together with their local solar business owners Simon Piluski and Victoria Roberts at Southern Vermont Solar, who set them up with a system that would work well for them. It is a 13.2-kilowatt (DC) system with 33 LG 400-watt panels. It uses Enphase IQ7PLUS microinverters and includes two Tesla Powerwalls.
Noelle and Eric were surprised at how much more energy could come from their roof with the higher wattage panels that are available today. It now made sense financially and ecologically – it was time to go solar! The array covers all of the south-facing roof of the studio building. As big as that system is, however, it does not supply all of the power needed by Zpots, which continues to use Cow Power for what it cannot produce. The system is grid tied, however, and can bank energy either in its own batteries or in credits that are maintained by Green Mountain Power. In fact, Victoria Roberts told us the array was cash positive from day one with a VSECU loan.”