Solar

Add Solar to your Home

Learn about your options and find a contractor here.

Unified Solar

The GPTF is working towards a Unified Solar Permit to streamline the application process.

Read about the Climate Smart Community Task guidance here. NY State's Solar Guidebook has more details here with a model Unified Solar Permit application and checklist. See NY Sun's Unified Solar Permit here. Irvington Village's current code can be found here.

Community Solar

If you cannot install your own solar panels, community solar is the next best thing, enabling access to the benefits of solar without any of the hassle. You save 10% on your electricity bill (calculated by ConEdison against the total dollar amount of your bill each month) and there are no fees. Participation contributes renewable energy to the grid and reduces carbon emissions.

Signing up is quick and easy and savings come quickly.

Before you get commit, do your research. Find guidance here.

There are currently subscriptions available with GS Solar.
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Sustainable Westchester offers educational materials and has subscriptions available for low income households.

Currently, some of our community solar projects do offer 20% credit savings to LMI households. The eligibility is determined by participation in these public assistance programs: SNAP, HEAP, TANF, SSI, and Empower+. These participants would have to submit a copy of an award letter or benefits card when signing up. We also can take individuals who provide redacted proofs of income such as pay stubs or tax returns with incomes falling at or below these requirements: Occ

Columbia's Proposal for a Solar Farm

Rejected but could it be resurrected?

Reach out to cbinns@irvingtonny.gov if you would like to explore this further.

Proposal For Solar Farm on Nevis Property Triggers Backlash Among Irvington Residents - The Hudson Indy Westchester's Rivertowns News -By Barrett Seaman– Every few decades, it seems, alarm bells go off in Irvington about a threat, real or rumored, that Columbia University is going to sell, develop or otherwise disfigure the bucolic 68-acre plot of land that houses the university’s Nevis Laboratories and the Nevis Estate, built by James Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s son, and named after the island where he was born. In the 1990s, there was talk that the university would build a cluster housing complex for retired […]