Dow's Solar Shingles Found Their First Home In California

http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2012/06/18/dows-solar-shingles-found-their-first-home-in-california/

Ucilia Wang 6/18/2012

On a hot sunny day in late May, a roofing crew arrived at the Madrigals’ home near Sacramento for a rather unusual job. Taking out what appeared at first to be typical shingles out of cardboard boxes, workers pounded nails into what were in fact sheets of solar cells covered in thin glass. When completed, the Madrigals got a new power-generating roof and became the first customers in California for Dow Solar’s hybrid shingles.

The 5.47-kilowatt system will help Frank and Cyndy Ann Madrigal cut their monthly utility bill by about two thirds.

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