Michael's 11.34 kW solar installation in Port Hope, Ontario

0:00uh my name is Michael and I'm in Port Hope Ontario and uh I work professionally as an actor I've been concerned about climate chains for a

0:08number of years now and that's really what um has motivated me to put the solar panels up on the roofs and I think

0:18the financial considerations as far as uh an investment in in the value of the house down the road that was uh

0:26certainly a consideration as well so having bought a an electric car a couple of years ago um I was getting more

0:33interested in electricity generation in general I have a pretty long history with um renewable energy and uh so I

0:42started as a wind guy and now I'm a solar guy and I remember meeting one of the engineers chatting with him one night he said these wind turbines are

0:51great machines but he said really the future in renewable energy is solar the process was really accurately subcribe

1:00once I started actually contacting them the thing I really liked about them was they're great communicators they were always available

1:08to answer questions there was um a lot of resources that I could uh link through on the website so uh so I felt

1:17pretty comfortable early on but um I did talk briefly to a couple of other companies I'm making quite a bit more

1:25electricity than I need on a monthly basis they really helped in the planning process and and guiding me to the decision about you know how much I was

1:34going to spend and how many panels I was going to put up there and and the great thing about what that I thought is they

1:42weren't pushing me to You Know cover every inch of the roof the panels and selling me more equipment than I needed

1:49so there was um I thought there was a really good balance about looking at my needs took about uh it was about 2 and

1:561/2 days the guy who was the the four person Foreman of the crew was um was great communicating with me and if you

2:05know questions I had they' used a corner of my garage as a store room for the panels and the rest of their equipment

2:12and when they went to clean up they actually swept out the whole garage which I thought was a very nice touch so definitely made me appreciate solar as

2:21well you know those little things sometimes can make a difference to me gave me a lot of confidence in the company they would take care of

2:29everything uh all my electricity needs were taken care of by by the panels for sure and I've got a pretty sizable I

2:37think a pretty sizable credit already for me having an electric car that's actually one of my biggest electricity uses is charging the car and you know

2:46I'm fortunate with a garage here I can put in a level two charger but I would say it was definitely a big motivation

2:53Factor especially the uh the no interest loan I would highly recommend them and then when they went out up I thought wow they they almost look like a piece of

3:02modern art sculpture up there cuz they're you know they're really black and and they they just to me they just looked really cool I'm really happy with

3:09the whole thing and uh glad I did it for sure