Solar energy catching on

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Solar energy catching on

WHEC-TV
updated 8:49 a.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 6, 2009

It's quiet, it's clean and one Victor businessman says it's catching on. It's solar energy generated by panels on houses and businesses.

Raj Rajan had solar panels installed on his home in Victor when he first built it several years ago and he says he loves producing his own energy. "On a real sunny day I'm thinking, that's a 40-kilowatt hour day! I'm not thinking it's a sunny day, I'm thinking, I'm going to make a lot of solar power today!

This summer, Rajan had an additional set of solar panel installed by O'Connell Electric, an electrical construction company where employees say they're going green. They added their own solar panels to the building just last week and Shaun Lessord says they're receiving 20 calls or emails every day about solar energy.

"With the state of the economy they also want to save costs. Solar panels are a cost-saving measure to give people a lower electric bill."

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