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How to help deep energy conservation take flight?

How to help deep energy conservation take flight?. For congregations, energy conservation can quickly and cheaply generate significant savings. Break-even in fourth year. Yet, a congregation excited about conservation is a rare bird. What does excite congregations?. Solar panels.

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How to help deep energy conservation take flight?

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  1. How to help deep energy conservation take flight?

  2. For congregations, energy conservation can quickly and cheaply generate significant savings. Break-even in fourth year

  3. Yet, a congregation excited about conservation is a rare bird.

  4. What does excite congregations?

  5. Solar panels.

  6. For congregations, panels cost a lot and their payback period is prohibitively long* Break-even in 18th year * Because congregations don’t pay taxes, they don’t benefit from the 30% tax credit.

  7. …which presents an opportunity. Might tying energy conservation to solar panels make an enticing combination –both cost-effective and exciting?

  8. Tying panels to deep energy conservation could shorten the payback for panels to just eleven years. Much shorter. Break-even in eleventh year

  9. But still out of reach. Congregations often need to recoup their investments very quickly – in perhaps seven years or less. Might we get to seven or less by also tying panels to conservation by congregants - and by providing a modest grant?

  10. Yes! With a $5000 grant and sixty members contributing half their energy savings for three years, the payback shrinks to six years. Break-even in six years

  11. Affordable solar – simply conserve. What’s not to like?

  12. Here are our assumptions. * Based on Indiana Utility Forecasting Group projections. ** Three years only. $70 a year.

  13. And here are our results, Solar panels funded solely by a $5,000 grant and $23,000 in energy savings recouped in six years. Savings Over Ten Years from Panels & Conservation exciting and Earth-friendly.

  14. Energy Conservation while Solar Panels does the heavy lifting. bring the congregation on board…

  15. Interested? Contact SeventhDayInitiative@gmail.com. Credit to Seventh Day Initiative

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