Check out this glowing Angie’s List Review from a White Sulphur Springs, WV, customer on March 30, 2016: Milestone Solar Consultants, owned and operated by Bill Anderson, did our install. We purposely waited 5 to 6 months before doing a review because new stuff always looks good in the beginning but what about months later?…
Category: Electricity Costs
Foreign hackers are already attacking the US power grid. But a Milestone Solar system with battery backup bank will keep your lights on 24/7 even if they succeed.
This video report reveals how teams of hackers from Russia, China, Iran and ISIS have launched more than a dozen cyberattacks against the US power grid over the past ten years. All it takes is one success to knock out the electricity that lights, heats and cools homes; that keeps food fresh and cooks it;…
How much should an hour of electricity cost?
About 3 PM Monday, May 12, a substation equipment failure knocked out power in Cumberland, MD, and Mineral County, WV. It wasn’t until 4 PM that Potomac Edison sent repair crews to the scene. And it wasn’t until 7 PM – four hours later – that all 3,000 customers who’d been without electricity got it…
How to beat Virginia's coming 5.8% electric rate hike
If the State Corporation Commission approves two Dominion Virginia Power filings for rate increases, residential rates will go up almost six percent for some 2.4 million customers, starting September 1. The bulk of that rate hike – 4.1% – would be to cover spiking natural gas and purchased electricity prices the utility paid to power…
FERC official: "We are now in an era of rising electricity prices."
A steady reduction in nationwide generating capacity in increasing electricity rates, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member Phillip Moeller. “We are now in an era of rising electricity prices,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “If you take enough supply out of the system, the price is going to increase.” In fact, electric rates…