Five years ago when Bob Frey and his family moved into a bigger home in the Olympus Cove area, he looked into buying a solar power system in order to reduce the use of carbon-based energy and do his part to ease the area’s chronic air pollution.
Back then, the return on his investment in such a system didn’t look right, the technology wasn’t quite there and he wasn’t satisfied with the answers from a contractor about the amount of new wiring it would require, where it would go and how it would look.