My wife and I are middle age (mid 50's) we both have disabilities, I have MS and she has multi ailments. We are both on a fixed income SSD and my wife has a small monthly trust fund. We own our house and after the mortgage and utilities are paid there is close to nothing left for food. Our electric utility is sucking us dry, our level payment is almost up to $400 per month (that takes away one of our SSD payments) The actual meter reading for Feb was over $700. We have seen news segments on tv where organizations have rescued poor people and have even built entire houses for free. We are aware of solar energy systems available but they are too expencive for us and we do not have enough equity in our house to apply for a loan.
With all the hundreds of billions of dollars the government is using to try and repair the economy, I would think there would be something available for a "solar energy system" home improvement project grant for little'ol us! A solar energy system would elimenate our power bill and what ever unused power we produce is baught back by the power company. We are told our electric meter will actualy run backwards.
Can anyone tell us if such a grant exsits? And how we can find it?
