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22 Apr 09

Chicago Reader | The Green Issue | Where Alternative Energy Meets Alt-Country: Ryan Boyles can record your band or make your electric meter run backward. By Ed. M. Koziarski

  • Later that year Boyles incorporated Windy City Solar, which he runs out of a one-room office in a Humboldt Park two-flat, upstairs from the recording studio he shares with the landlord. He’s since phased out the carpentry work to focus on solar electric.


    Last spring the Illinois legislature sowed the seeds for a solar boom in Chicago by passing a “net-metering” law, under which people with solar arrays with capacities up to 40 kilowatts are credited at retail rate for any electricity they feed back into the grid up to the value of their electric bill—ComEd spokeswoman Rachel Gerds compares it to rollover minutes.

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