Green / Solar Roofing
As energy costs continue to rise more homeowners are seeking alternative means to power their homes. Solar panels offer a safe, simple and productive method for producing power, lowering your utility costs while preserving the environment.
Leska Restoration & European Roof Specialist LLC transforms your home into a hybrid system that utilizes both solar energy and the energy from your existing power grid; the optimal way to power your house and cut back on heating and electric bills. It's remarkably simple. During the day solar panels mounted on your roof silently harness the suns bountiful energy supply and convert it into electricity. This energy is used to power the various devices in your home during the day. At night your home reverts back to drawing power from the existing grid.
What is the biggest advantage to using Leska to install your solar roofing system? Our warranties are fully applicable to our solar roofing systems. Most roofing companies will void the warranty if solar roofing is installed. Leska proudly stands behind our roofing warranties, even on solar roofing panels.
At Leska Restoration & European Roof Specialist LLC, we'll provide your home with state–of–the–art solar panels and energy solutions as a roofing system. Our talented team of energy experts will provide you with a consultation and decide the optimal solar configuration for your home. We'll install all the necessary roof mounts and panels and also a monitoring system that allows you to see just how much solar energy you're using.
Start saving money and energy, go solar today, call Leska Restoration & European Roof Specialist LLC at 240–207–4155.
SunNet Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPV)
An Englert standing seam metal roof provides the critical platform for the SunNet, thin film photovoltaic modules and laminates that help our customers supplement their energy needs for residential and commercial facilities with renewable solar energy.
SunNet Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems capture energy from the sun and convert it to electricity throughout the day generating in many cases all of the necessary energy a home or building requires.
The photovoltaic laminate is manufactured of a flexible, extremely lightweight and unbreakable, self adhesive material that is less than a quarter–inch thick and is easily attached to the standing seam roof panels either before or after roof installation. An Englert metal roof is ideal because of the uniformity and stability of its surface and the ability to paint metal to custom colors to match the laminates. SunNet comes in a variety of product configurations with power ratings from 68W to 136W
How it Works
SunNet photovoltaic laminates are bonded to the Englert metal roof with wiring connections down to an inverter. The photovoltaic system sends direct electrical current to an inverter where it is converted to alternating electrical current to satisfy the structure's utility loads.
If the photovoltaic supplies more electricity than the structure requires, solar electricity will turn the utility meter backwards and reduce or eliminate the utility bill.
LEED Credits
The use of photovoltaic material meets the requirements of LEED Energy and Atmosphere Credit 2, (Renewable Energy), which incrementally awards up to three points for generating 5 percent, 10 percent, or 20 percent of the building's energy use with renewable power. This allows a building to earn up to 10 LEED credits in tandem with an Englert metal roof which has the potential to earn up to seven LEED points Energy & Atmosphere, material recyclability, regional manufacture and building reuse.
Englert Environmental is a single source for all of your solar power needs, providing the materials, the installation expertise and the support to install a photovoltaic system as well as a host of other renewable energy solutions.
Photovoltaic System Detail
Solar PV and Hot Water Incentives
Solar power systems are within reach of the average home and business owner with these incentives!
Solar PV (electric) starting Jan 2009:
Federal: Solar Tax Income tax credit: 30% of net cost of the system
State:
Maryland: Solar Energy Grant Program: NO FUNDS AVAILABLE UNTIL 2009 $2,500 per kilowatt, up to $10,000
Harford County: $2,500 flat taxcredit
Howard County: (Property Tax Credit for Energy Conservation Devices) Tax Credit 50% of the total cost up to $5,000 Montgomery County Tax Credit: 50% of the total cost up to $5,000
Prince George's County Tax Credit: 50% of the total cost up to $5,000
Renewable Energy Credits (RECs)
Beginning in 2008, utility companies selling electricity into the Maryland market are required to have a percentage of that electricity provided by solar electric systems installed in Maryland. This is part of what is called the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). The utility companies are very limited in their ability to meet this requirement with their own generation; therefore, they will need to purchase Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) through aggregators and private solar electric system owners. This is great news for any homeowner in Maryland with an installed solar PV system.
Your system will generate RECs every year that we can help you sell and lower your overall system cost.
Solar Hot Water
Federal: (Residential) Income tax credit: 30% of net cost up to $2,000
State:
Maryland: Solar Energy Grant Program: 30% off the cost of the system, up to $3,000.
NO FUNDS AVAILABLE UNTIL 2009
Local:
Anne Arundel County: Net cost of the system, up to the value of the property taxes on the building for one year.
Howard County: (Property Tax Credit for Energy Conservation Devices) Tax Credit: 50% of the total cost up to $1,500
Harford County: (Property Tax Credit for Solar Energy Units) Tax Credit: $2,500 flat credit
Montgomery County: Tax credit of 50% of the total cost up to $1,500
Prince George's County: Tax credit of 50% of the total cost up the $1,500
Howard County resident PV and hot water system examples
- PV System Size 5,000 W
- Solar Domestic Hot Water (SHDW)
- Cost $38,000.00
- Cost $11,000.00
- Grant $6,000.00
- Grant $3,000.00
- FITC $11,400.00
- FITC $3,300.00
- Local Incentive $5,000.00
- Local Incentive $1,500.00
- Installed Cost $15,600
- Installed Cost $3,200
- 100% Payback: 5 YRS 6 MOS
- 100% Payback: 3 YRS 0 MOS
We offer advanced SREC payments that can reduce the installed cost of your PV system. Call us for the details.
We have financing partnerships to help you get the system you want.
What makes a green roof?
To determine what makes a green roof, we must first consider what a roof does. First, and foremost, roofs keep rain (and snow) off our heads and protect the walls and interiors of our houses; second, they keep us safe from fire; third, they add to the curbside appeal of our homes; and finally, roofs can provide temperature abatement. When you hear the term green roof, you may invoke images of environmentally friendly, flat garden roofs with multiple types of drought resistant green plants spouting up. Green roofs comprised of plants weigh about 15 lbs per square foot, often requiring added structural support, and green roofs are generally designed for flat roofs or those with an extremely low slope. In areas where there is snow, there could be concerns with the added weight. Then, too, in the first year the green roof must be irrigated and weeded regularly. In subsequent years, a green roof must be weeded at least twice a year. Ideally, green roof products, which are better for our health and for the environment, would provide all four of the above benefits. But it's not always that simple. Roofing can be one of the most climate-specific materials for building. Green roofing materials and durability go together. Durability is synonymous with longevity, hence, green. The more durable a product is, the longer it remains in service and the lower the total cost to the environment will be, conducive to the green roof concept. Using durable products also reduces pollution and landfill waste.
