Solar Energy Power Panels, Inverters, Batteries

Solar energy heating up Clarkson Valley council chambers

01.01.70

Jim and Frances Babb be deficient in Clarkson Valley to see the light about the benefits of solar energy.

In preference to, they fear city officials are placing a premium on looks and smothering their rights.

The Babbs, who red-hot on Kehrsdale Court in Kehrs Mill Estates West subdivision, require to install 100 panels on the front of their 14-year-old house. The system will preserve them about 90 percent of their energy costs, they said.

The panels would look south, which they said is the best alignment to pick up the most solar liveliness.

The couple applied Oct. 14 to the city for a permit to put in the panels, but the permit is on assemble while city officials draw up a new law regulating solar systems.

"I air we've been discriminated against by the city, because it was only after our application went in that the city decisive to restrict solar," said Jim Babb, an electrical engineer.

Babb said the metropolis should have give him a permit based on its existing law.

"State law says solar vitality is a property right," he said. "If your new law is so restrictive that I can't put solar on the front of my house, you've captivated away that right."

Source: STLtoday.com