CoolerPlanet Solar Tools and Resources
I stumbled upon a cool website called CoolerPlanet that contains a wide array of resources to help save you time and money, while still lowering your environmental impact. They have developed a large network on green professionals throughout America to help lower your energy bills. By putting in your location and current needs, CoolerPlanet can help match you up with the appropriate business to meet your needs. They also have several tools to help determine if solar energy is appropriate for your situation. The best thing about this site is that it is all provided free of charge and no signing up.
Solar Energy Cost Tool
This is the main feature of this site and allows you to determine the total cost of a solar energy system. They also provide the various incentives that are available to lower the cost, the “break even” point and even allow you to request a quote from a solar energy expert in your area. I really like this tool because it gives you the “break even” number of years for buying a solar energy system. It’s sometimes tough to determine if a solar energy system is appropriate for your house or business location, especially in areas where it may not seem sunny. This tool will show you can fund your solar energy system off of energy bill savings with a reasonable amount of time.
Power Rating Tool
CoolerPlanet’s power rating tool is another cool feature of this site. It shows their own rating system of how cost effective it is to obtain a solar system in each state. All available tax incentives and the average cost of a system in a particular state are used to make the calculation. What’s cool is that it allows you to browse a map highlighted with various colors showing each states solar energy cost rating. It gives you a good idea of how cost effective solar energy is for your state as well as those surrounding.
Other Resources
There are more resources and tools available on this site including: a blog, Solar Energy Q&A, Solar Energy news and even a Solar Install Map. CoolerPlanet did a great job in making it a one stop place to researching and purchasing a solar energy system.
This Solar Energy Cost Tool is quite useful.Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the resource “Solar Install Map” This is going to help me. And thanks for the post.
I checked out Coolerplanet and could not recommend more the feature that lets you calculate the cost of your own solar energy system. Thank you.
Helpful Post. Thank you for the resource “Solar Install Map”, is there a lot of helpful information …