There are many state, federal and privately funded incentives for business and consumer considering solar. One of the best for business owners is the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). This program has a number of benefits tailored to helping business owners interested in solar and in reducing their carbon footprints. We’ve been very…
Category: Commercial
Installation of the Month – May, 2021
Big Timber Brewery, Elkins, WV The beer may not be green (except maybe on St. Patrick’s Day), but the electricity for brewing it certainly is. Milestone’s solar professionals designed, installed and commissioned a system comprising 196 REC 380-watt solar modules, SolarEdge inverter and optimizer technology for 3-phase interconnection, and module level monitoring for real-time…
Milestone Solar agricultural installation generates more power than five average homes use in a year
A newly completed commercial solar installation on a Washington County, MD, farm will generate more electrical power annually than five average homes use in 12 months. Incorporating 186 Panasonic 330-watt HIT® modules, six SolarEdge inverters and 186 SolarEdge optimizers, this best of class system is rated at 61.4 kilowatts (DC) and is expected to produce more than 85,000 kilowatt-hours…
Don't let power outages ground your business
You may not have heard what caused last week’s Delta Airlines computer shutdown that grounded 15,000 flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers worldwide for more than 24 hours. It was a local power outage in the part of Atlanta where Delta is headquartered. There’s a lesson for businesses of all sizes in…
There's no telling when the power will go out – or why
Power outages can happen at the worst times and for the strangest reasons. Take the morning of Friday, September 20, when the new iPhone5 was set to go on sale. It was minutes before 8 AM in Bethesda, MD. A line of customers, eager to buy, stretched from the door of the Apple store all…