(IL) Chicago Tribune – Jim Camasto, a Naperville homeowner who installed two kinds of solar energy systems in his home over the last few years, is generating so much power from those sources on some days that he sells the excess back to the city and gets credit toward his electric bill.
Though not completely off the local power grid, Camasto and his wife, Kath, slashed their energy costs to about $1,000 last year compared with about $2,000 in 2001 before switching over to their new alternative energy sources. More