BCSEA E-News: HOW TO CUT YOUR ELECTRICITY BILLS IN HALF - A KASLO STORY

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HOW TO CUT YOUR ELECTRICITY BILLS IN HALF - THE KASLO STORY

by ANDY SHADRACK WITH GAIL BAUMAN MARCH 5, 2015

How much energy can one family save? Is there a family in Kamloops, Kelowna or Keremeos that can compete with this family in Kaslo? The chase is on…

We live in Kaslo, a jewel of a community nestled on the shores of Kootenay Lake in the mountain forests north of Nelson, in the West Kootenays. We have a 900 square foot house, and our daughter left home in 1996.

We began looking at our household energy consumption more than a decade ago, but we were frightened away from solar when we were given an estimated cost of $70,000 for a system big enough to match our total energy needs in the summer and half in winter.