Why does decreasing your carbon footprint matter? 

The amount of carbon each of us adds to the Earth's atmosphere directly increases the greenhouse effect.

The greenhouse effect is a well known scientific process whereby co2 gas traps heat in the atmosphere by absorbing solar rays that would otherwise be refelcted back into space.

Warming the planet through anthopogenic co2 emissions increases the prevalence of storms, crop losses, the spread of subtropical disease, increases sea levels leading to flooding, as well as ocean acidification which kills marine life and threatens to collapse ecosystems in the ocean threatening food chains that humanity relies on like fishing stocks, as well as increasing resource conflicts resulting from these systemic factors.

Understanding the importance of offsetting your carbon footprint, it's natural to ask: how much carbon will my solar power system offset? 

The average solar power system in DC is around 10 kW.

Here's the good news:  your decision to go solar matters and has a big impact on our planet.

This system size offsets about 6 metric tons of carbon annually.

That's about the weight of 1-2 full grown African elephants.

It's similar to the amount of carbon an entire adult grown forest of 300 or more trees absorbs annually.

Or as much carbon as an entire car produces annually.

If every homeowner in the United States went solar we'd cut the total carbon footprint of the United States by about a billion tones (gigaton) annually.

You can not only save lots of money with Free Solar, you can leave a legacy behind for future generations of environmental sustainability and responsibility.

And give just a little bit back to the planet that's given everything it has to us.