Solar Benefits
Sungevity makes it really easy to be green!
It's difficult to imagine, but every time you switch on your computer, washing machine, TV, or toaster, pollution is being created somewhere at the other end of the wire. This pollution has far-ranging consequences and contributes to poor air quality and climate change.
Electricity itself is not the problem. If we generated 100% of our electricity from the wind and sun, there would be significantly fewer carbon emissions. But instead, electricity generation is responsible for about 40% of America’s annual carbon emissions, contributing to air pollution in our cities and towns, and global climate change.
The vast majority of households in the U.S. still receive 100% of their energy from their utility via the grid. Over 70% of all electricity in the grid is supplied from power plants burning fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil.
It does take energy and resources to make solar panels, but according to the International Energy Agency (IEA 2006), the amount of energy used to manufacture a solar panel will be generated, and thus paid back, by that same panel in less than 2 years (when placed in California sunlight conditions).
At Sungevity, we believe one solution to climate change is to increase the global use of solar power. That's because when you use the sun to power your home, you make energy exactly where you need it. When your home generates electricity from the sun, you reduce the amount of electricity you draw off the grid and decrease the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere, all without having to change your lifestyle.
Home Solar helps you take control.
When you solar power your home you are individually harnessing the power of the sun to create electricity for yourself, right where it counts, and doing so puts you in greater control of your electricity costs. Going solar can help protect you from the steady and rising energy rate hikes of your utility company. If you choose to go solar with the Sungevity Solar Lease, you’re also guaranteed low monthly rates that won’t catch you by surprise from month to month.
Home Solar makes us more energy secure and more energy independent.
Using solar energy reduces our reliance on foreign resources – helping make the USA more energy independent. The US currently imports an increasing percentage of its primary energy needs, increasing our susceptibility to price volatility and shortages. With resource crunches hitting the headlines, generating your own clean electricity is one small step towards shifting the world toward a more local, sustainable economy.
Home Solar creates green jobs.
When you use solar energy to power your home you are helping to build a movement towards positive economic change - solar energy is a key component of the sustainable energy economy that is beginning to create jobs for millions of Americans. Job growth from solar is taking place in the selling, installation, and servicing of home solar systems and these are jobs that cannot be off-shored or outsourced. The clean energy economy is not only key to helping offset the effects of climate change and protecting the environment, it is also absolutely necessary to strengthening the 21st- century economy in the US.