As someone who owns a small solar company in Vermont, I’d recommend sun common or catamount. They both do good work. Avoid sun run at all costs. Sun Run will give you the worst quality install for the highest price.

The mountain is open year round and is gaining popularity in the warm months for mountain biking, but is still nothing compared to winter months. A large portion of the restaurants close down come spring time. A word of caution about the up to an hour drive, that easily becomes 2-3 hours during winter driving conditions. Just something to consider. North of killington is probably where the more affordable housing is, but you’ll be an hour from grocery stores

Hello and welcome. I’m quite white so it’s hard for me to say how the racism is around here but people mostly seem pretty accepting of others. Internet around killington is served pretty well by EC fiber which is great. Rutland will be your closest “city” which is where you’d likely go for groceries and other errands. You’re moving to a ski area so housing will be tough to find long term and be expensive. I mostly wanted to touch on working at killington. Make sure your husbands friend isn’t pulling his leg about work all year. It’s crazy busy now and restaurants need the help but it does slow down A LOT during the spring, summer and fall. Make sure you live close to killington because he will be expected to drive up to work in the worst of weather, it’s busiest when it snows and the tourists drive like animals.

I dug a 4-5’ deep hole in our run and put a small piece of plywood over it with a 5” hole in the center to place our water dispenser over. It keeps it from freezing most days, when it gets closer to 0 it doesn’t help though.

We have lots of old folks and people who are visiting and unfamiliar with the area. I suppose it could be that or they’re stoned. The coming to a near stop before turning seems to be a general Vermont thing since always though.

Go buy a new battery? It doesn’t have a pull start?

You can most likely get a separate service installed for the array and have the credits go to your homes bill. Call gmp, they can answer this and will come out to look it over with you.

Gmp is currently around $23/ft for underground installs. That includes primary cable cost, transformer cost and them hooking it up. That does not include the cost for having someone dig the trench and lay the conduit (gmp does not do that). You will also need an electrician to run the secondary cables from the pad mounted transformer to your home site. Not sure what the current price for installing poles is. Off grid solar is probably going to be a bit more expensive but then you don’t have to pay an electric bill. Roughly $4-4.50/watt. Electrician/owner of solar company here.