terra tile solar project

TERRA TILE & MARBLE ROOFTOP SOLAR120Kw Solar Installation, Briarcliff Manor, NY

Terra Tile & Marble, Briarcliff Manor

• 1993 building• 30,000 sq ft• Warehouse, showroom, 8 offices,

plus parking lot with 11 parking lot pole lights

• Estimated average monthly electricity costs: $3,000

Terra Tile & Marble, Briarcliff Manor

• Owned by the Gasch family: Manuel, David and Sue

• Founded by Manuel Gasch 40 years ago

• David Gasch is the new generation of leadership for the company

The Terra Tile solar installation was one of almost 30 solar installations brought about through the Solarize Ossining-Briarcliff campaign.

“The idea behind the Solarize campaigns is to help homeowners and commercial property owners organize as a community to get lower rates from qualified solar suppliers to make it both less expensive and easier to install solar,”

Nina Orville, Program Manager of Solarize Westchester. “

The Town of Ossining offers Energize NY Finance--available for commercial property owners in the town for energy efficiency or renewable energy property improvements. The financing is perfect for solar projects with up to 20-year repayment terms, low interest rates and is repaid as an annual charge on the property tax bill.

www.energizeny.org

“When the town supervisor, Susanne Donnelly, invited us to attend the Solarize meeting at Maya Riviera, and explained the Solarize Westchester selection criteria for solar installers, and all of the extra criteria they put on the applicants, and the discounted pricing, it just felt like the right time to go solar.”

Manuel and David Gasch

Best Energy Power was chosen as the commercial building solar installer for the Ossining- Briarcliff Solarize Campaign

Beginning of construction

Installation Phase

Inverters Installed

Installation Complete

Terra staff can check on the functioning and output of the solar panels anytime, from anywhere

Celebration and Press EventSeptember 30, 2015In Photo:

Front, L-R: Ronnie Mandler (Best Energy Power); Victoria Gearity (Mayor, Village of Croton); Jana Petrikova (Energize NY); Dani Glaser (Westchester Green Business Challenge); Kevin Muchnik (Best Energy Power); Sue Gasch (Terra Tile); Manuel Gasch (Terra Tile); Elyssa Rothe (Energize NY); Catherine Borgia (Westchester County Legislator); Sandra Galef (NYS Assembly)

Middle: Scott Smith (Program Director, NYSERDA); David Gasch (Terra Tile); Robert Fischman (Energize NY); Susanne Donnelly (Supervisor, Town of Ossining); Nina Orville (Solarize Westchester); Nicole Coddington (Solarize Westchester)

Back: Kathryn Hoenig (Energize NY); Justin Strachan (Sustainable CUNY); Mark Thielking (Energize NY); Troy Jellerette (First Niagara Financial Group); Leo Wiegman (Sustainable Westchester)