Solar company launches in Oxford Hills region
A startup solar company in the Oxford Hills region has begun installing solar tracker arrays for residential and institutional clients.
The Sun Journal reported that Fred Garbo of Norway and Shawn Kane of Otisfield recently founded Garbo-Kane Integrated Solar Builders to help residents of Oxford Hills install solar energy systems.
A solar tracker is an array of solar panels that follows the sun to collect as much energy as possible throughout the day. The panel array, mounted on a mast, moves 6 inches every eight minutes, using only 1% of the energy it produces to turn itself, the paper reported.
The first clients, owners of a farm in West Paris, are expected to save roughly $1,800 a year in energy costs and recoup the cost of the system in six to seven years, the paper reported.
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