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By Craig Johnson

5 Incentives to Solar Up

Concrete financial incentives that any homeowner thinking of solar power needs to know about.

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The desire to save on energy bills is driving the trend toward solar panels, first and foremost. Also, capturing the sun's power with your own system gets you a degree of independence from the local grid. It is environmentally smart and furthers everyone's goal of American energy independence as well. But goals and desires are one thing, while ince...
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