Solar Smart Living Offers a Home Improvement Loan Program

As an approved FHA Title I lender, our lender is already a leading provider of the secured $25,000 Title I Home Improvement Loans. Title I Home Improvement Loan Summary This non-equity based loan is intended for general home improvements such as solar electric system installations. No equity or appraisal required*** 100% upfront funding (money is […]

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El Paso Electric Signs PPA For 50 MW New Mexico PV Park

El Paso Electric Company (EPE) has signed a PPA for Element Power’s 50 MW Macho Springs photovoltaic plant near Deming, New Mexico.  Construction on the project is scheduled to start in 2013, and should be complete the following year. Overall, around 400 construction jobs are expected to be created. Once online, the Macho Springs photovoltaic […]

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Study Finds Consumers are Getting Two-to-One Return on Investment

Economic study of value of solar power finds consumers are getting two-to-one return on investment The Mid-Atantic Solar Energy Industries Association (MSEIA) and the Pennsylvania Solar Energy Industries Association (PASEIA) recently commissioned Clean Power Research to do a study released as The Value of Distributed Solar Electric Generation to New Jersey and Pennsylvania to estimate the economic […]

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High Winds In El Paso Cause Down Electrical Lines, Early Closures

Times staff reportelpasotimes.com Posted:   12/14/2012 04:40:36 PM MST Reporter Daniel Borunda Update: 4:40 p.m.: A Texas Department of Transportation spokeswoman said that crews have cleared an accident were a tractor-trailer fell off a bridge in the Spaghetti Bowl area. The crash this morning had blocked lanes on the ramp from U.S. 54 South to Interstate […]

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Solar Panels for Every Home

By DAVID CRANE and ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. Published: December 12, 2012 WE don’t think much about pitch pine poles until storms like Hurricane Sandy litter our landscape with their splintered corpses and arcing power lines. Crews from as far away as California and Quebec have worked feverishly to repair or replace those poles as utility companies rebuild […]

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El Paso Electric Solar PV Pilot Program Opens February 1st

Welcome to El Paso Electric Solar PV Pilot Program Update 1/22/2013: We will begin accepting new incentive applications for the El Paso Electric PV Incentive Program on Friday, February 1, 12 noon Mountain time (1 pm Central time). All incentive applications must be submitted by registered service providers to pvapps@frontierassoc.com. Incentive applications received prior to the […]

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