When we partnered with ReVision Energy to install 262 solar panels on our New Hampshire rooftop earlier this year, we made a promise — to ourselves, our team, our customers, and our community — that we’d put our sustainability principles into practice in a way you could measure. Not a slogan. Not a goal on a slide. A meter that turns.
A few months in, we want to share what that meter is telling us. Because the story is even better than we expected.
The Numbers Behind the Panels
Sustainability is a core principle at EZ-CRETE. We’re always looking to protect our team, our customers, and our environment — and producing local, clean energy is one of the most direct ways a manufacturer can contribute to a sustainable economy. We’re thrilled with how the array has performed.
When the sun is shining, our 262 rooftop panels generate electricity that’s either used in real time inside our production facility or sent back to the grid — where it benefits our community by displacing fossil-fuel power and earns us a credit. Over a full year, our array is expected to produce roughly 100,733 kilowatt-hours of clean electricity. That’s enough to:
- Offset the equivalent of over 126,000 miles driven in a gas-powered car
- Keep more than 98,819 pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere — every single year
And the array is already delivering. So far this month alone, we’ve produced 11.40 MWh. Since installation, we’ve generated 25.09 MWh, saved roughly 85,000 pounds of CO₂, and powered the equivalent of 44,000 kilometers driven on sunshine.
You can watch it happen in real time on our public solar dashboard — both what we’re producing today and what the system has produced across its lifetime.
Why Local Energy Matters
It’s easy to think of clean energy as something that happens “somewhere else” — a wind farm in the Midwest, a solar field in the desert. But the most resilient grids, and the most resilient communities, are built on energy generated close to where it’s used.
Every kilowatt-hour our roof produces is a kilowatt-hour that doesn’t have to be generated by a distant power plant, pushed across long transmission lines, and lose energy along the way. When we send power back to the grid, it goes to our neighbors first — to the homes, schools, and businesses in our corner of New England. That’s not abstract. That’s local impact, generated by a local manufacturer, supporting the local economy.
What This Means for Our Customers
We make concrete. It’s a material the modern world is built on — but it’s also a material with a real climate footprint. That’s exactly why we feel a responsibility to lead, not follow.
When you buy a precast product from EZ-CRETE, you’re working with a manufacturer whose operations are powered, in significant part, by the sun above our own roof. The same EV ChargerBases we ship to ReVision Energy across New England are now being built using the same kind of clean energy those chargers are designed to support. That’s the full circle we talked about in our first post on this partnership — and it gets more complete with every kilowatt-hour the array produces.
Looking Up, and Looking Ahead
Standing in the parking lot and looking up at our roof, it’s easy to forget how much is happening up there. 262 silent panels. A facility being powered. A grid being supplied. Tens of thousands of pounds of carbon never released.
We’re proud of what the array has produced. But we’re more excited about what it represents: proof that a precast concrete manufacturer in rural New Hampshire can be part of the clean-energy economy — not as a customer of it, but as a contributor to it.
Stronger today. Smarter tomorrow. And every day, a little more powered by the sun.