Go West...or East

摘要

The sun shines a lot in Crested Butte, Colorado, a historic mining town in the Rocky Mountains. Bruce and Gretchen Jacobsen bought a vacation home at the edge of town, recently completing a whole-house renovation. They were familiar with PV electricity, having considered installing a system on their home in Seattle. After living in the cloudy Northwest, they didn't want to waste all that abundant Colorado sunshine. Renewables are part of the energy future they would like to see in this mountain community. They wanted to do their part to help reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, and even though there were no local utility incentives in the Crested Butte area, nor state tax credits available, they still wanted to produce clean energy of their own.