How Breweries Can Turn Sunshine into Dollar Signs

Electric costs for your brewery are part of the process. It’s one of those expenses that just comes with the territory of running a successful business and needs to be factored into overhead costs. Right?

Not if you go solar!

A solar panel installation for your brewery presents a host of opportunities to save money, promote your business and be more independent.

Saving Money   

Solar panels produce electricity on site to reduce, or even eliminate, your monthly electric costs. It is the only investment a business can make that turns unavoidable monthly expenses into an asset that has a typical ROI of 4-5 years, is warrantied for 25 years, and lasts 35+ years! Solar provides savings and stability so you can focus on brewing great beer.

Promoting Your Brewery

Clean, renewable solar energy is an excellent way to promote your brewery while doing right by the environment. The green movement is being pioneered by businesses, large and small. Over 7,000 businesses have gone solar in NYS! Brews from the Sun is a community dedicated to promoting solar-powered breweries that would prove to be a marketing asset.

Independence

Turning the roof of your brewery, or open space on the grounds, into a power plant makes you the source for your own clean, renewable electricity. You’re no longer subject to utility rate increases as you have the stability of producing your own power.

Benefits of Going Solar in New York

New York State is one of the best states to go solar in, thanks to the incentives. There is an incentive from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) that is available to all solar installations in the state. Incorporating that incentive with the 26% Federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and accelerated depreciation, businesses are seeing a typical ROI of 4-5 years on an asset that is warrantied for 25 years and produces power well beyond that!

-by Nate VerHague, Inside Sales & Marketing Coordinator at Solar Liberty