You don’t have to go nuts and purchase a $20,000 system to go completely solar. A small system that will help to offset your energy bill can run you as little as a few thousand dollars. It can add market value to your home and save you some money every month.

The online guys with the most experience in solar are Real Goods/Gaiam. Real Goods has been in the solar living business in California for decades. They purchased online alternative energy giant Jade Mountain about ten years ago and were then themselves purchased by Gaiam, who you probably know best as purveyors of yoga videos. It’s a strange interconnected world out there in Greenville.

Real Goods can take you through the process of designing and building even a mini-system with one of their experts. Just visit Real Goods Solar and Renewable Energy to find out more.

If you are in Canada, Solar Solutions of Winnipeg and Renewable Energy of Plum Hollow in Ontario are trusted merchants of the solar cell. If you prefer someone in your area, simply let your fingers do the walking either through your local directory or for searching for <your town> + “solar distributor” on the Google machine.

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