Power to the People

Summary: A rebate program to encourage small-scale renewable energy projects, in its first year and a half, attributed almost $ 4 million to 400 homes and businesses - filling fuel a trend toward energy independence, which is becoming more and more common in this region. At the farm sassafras hill in Plymouth, the roof is covered with tiles with solar panels that provide more than enough hot water to heat the house, and the horses get hot showers. At the farm a century old Steve MacAusland in Dedham, solar panels and an efficient oil burner had released invoices for electricity. By tomorrow, Extrusion Technology Inc. Randolph plans to begin employing 192 solar panels mounted on its roof to provide 5 percent of the supply for the aluminium major consumer of energy extrusion.