Valley Friends Meeting project

Valley Friends Meeting celebrated its fifth anniversary of becoming a solarized faith community on October 14, 2023.  They accomplished this by a roof-mounted, 10.5kw, 34-panel array financed through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). In those five years, the array has produced 65 megawatt hours and saved 100,000 pounds of CO2, the equivalent of 760 trees planted, according to the metrics at the SolarEdge website. Prior to the installation of the solar array, they replaced a 60-year-old oil furnace with a high-efficiency heat pump. The combination has saved Valley Friends Meeting approximately $1500 annually in utility bills.  Moreover, the heat-pump provides air-conditioning to the Meetinghouse in summer months, which was not previously air-conditioned.  It is gratifying that doing the right thing for the climate can also be the wise thing to do. For more information, contact Dave Pruett at, c.david.pruett@gmail.com