Co-ops develop MySCSolar.com to help consumers

York Elec­tric and South Car­oli­na’s 19 oth­er elec­tric co-ops are shin­ing a light on solar ener­gy with a new infor­ma­tion­al web­site for con­sumers, MySCSolar.com. The site includes infor­ma­tion about solar basics, find­ing an expe­ri­enced, cer­ti­fied con­trac­tor to install solar pho­to­volta­ic (PV) sys­tems, a Do the Math page that gives tips to size a PV sys­tem for a home, infor­ma­tion about financ­ing and tax incen­tives and a cal­cu­la­tor to deter­mine esti­mat­ed costs and sav­ings. Oth­er sec­tions include a Final Check­list & Ques­tions and pro­vide infor­ma­tion about Ener­gy Stor­age and inter­con­nect require­ments and appli­ca­tions.

Learn more online

You can also access MySCSolar.com through a link in YEC’s Renew­able Ener­gy sec­tion, which also fea­tures infor­ma­tion about ear­li­er solar ini­tia­tives and our Green Pow­er pro­gram. As you’ll see, these are not insignif­i­cant efforts. Just as elec­tric co-ops like YEC have built our rep­u­ta­tion as a trust­ed source for reli­able, afford­able and envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble elec­tric­i­ty for almost 75 years, for the last 11 years, we’ve been offer­ing our mem­bers a way to sup­port ener­gy fueled from renew­able resources with Green Pow­er.

Nation­wide, elec­tric co-ops are renew­able ener­gy lead­ers. Co-op capac­i­ty includes pow­er gen­er­at­ed from wind, solar, small hydro, bio­mass, land­fill gas and geot­her­mal instal­la­tions. By sup­port­ing a wide range of fuels for elec­tric pow­er, YEC and coop­er­a­tives nation­wide have always strived to reduce costs and keep rates low while ensur­ing reli­able ser­vice.

A renewed commitment

Last year, YEC rolled out sev­er­al programs—all com­plete­ly vol­un­tary, I might note—to offer inter­est­ed mem­bers a way to sup­port renew­able ener­gy. We’ve always stressed our com­mit­ment that mem­bers will not be sub­si­diz­ing our renew­able ener­gy pro­grams. Our posi­tion has always been that both solar and wind must rep­re­sent viable alter­na­tives in order for York Elec­tric to embrace them.

We’ve always hoped that advances in tech­nol­o­gy would help this come to pass. Now that tech­no­log­i­cal improve­ments, low­er prices and a new state law have paved the way to mak­ing res­i­den­tial solar ener­gy sys­tems more acces­si­ble to South Car­oli­na home­own­ers, we’re con­tin­u­ing our com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing the most afford­able, reli­able, safe, and envi­ron­men­tal­ly sound elec­tric­i­ty.

Vis­it MySCSolar.com soon! Let us know if you have any ques­tions. And, if some of our ear­li­er renew­able ener­gy ini­tia­tives inter­est you, con­tact Mem­ber Ser­vices Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Don­na Des­saint at (803) 818‑5213. Don­na is our point per­son for YEC’s renew­able ener­gy pro­grams.

We’ll have even more good news to share with you in the com­ing months about projects now in the plan­ning stages.

Shine on!