Why GeoInnovation?
GeoInnovation provides the highest level of workmanship so that your installation is efficient, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing. GeoInnovation offers a sustainable energy alternative giving you control of your own electricity production.
Qualifications
GeoInnovation, LLC is a residentially and commercially licensed contractor in Arizona. George Villec is a nationally certified NABCEP solar installer with twenty years of experience in mechanical and electrical design. |
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FREE On-Site Solar Evaluation
Please contact GeoInnovation for a free on-site evaluation of your home or business in Southern Arizona.
Warranty
- PV panels are warranted by the manufacturer for 25 years and have an expected life
of 30 to 40 years.
- The inverter is warranted by the manufacturer for 10 years and has an expected life of 15 to 20 years
- GeoInnovation provides a 5-year warranty on system operation.
Congressional Award for Excellence in Solar Energy
From the Arizona Daily Star, 07.06.2007
Giffords lauds energy efforts
Local solar guru honored
By Shelley Shelton
Veteran tinkerer and local solar installer George Villec was recognized for his energetic commitment to solar energy on Thursday during a solar-energy press conference by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of District 8.
Giffords, a Democrat, honored Villec, 45, and Tucson Vice Mayor Shirley Scott with Giffords' inaugural Congressional Awards for Excellence in Solar Energy during a brief ceremony.
Villec, who says he's one of four solar installers in Tucson
who are nationally certified as solar technicians, rode with his wife, Linda, from their Sabino Canyon-area home to the event in a solar car that Villec designed.
He once worked as an engineer for General Motors and Ford Motor Co....
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Arizona Daily Star: Suddenly, solar's hot
Energy prices have the sun looking good
By Shelley Shelton
In the late 1970s, a nationwide energy crisis had people looking for ways to become less dependent on fossil fuels. Many focused their attention on solar energy as a renewable resource. But energy prices moderated, tax credits for solar systems evaporated, and solar's future dimmed.
Fast-forward to 2007: Energy prices are again soaring and remain volatile, and with the perceived threat of global warming, people are once again wondering what they can do to become less dependent on non-renewable fossil fuels.
"My thought process was, if I can produce enough energy on my roof to meet my needs, I want to produce something tangible toward energy independence," said Chuck Dunn, 51, who is installing what will be Tucson's largest residential array of solar panels on a home he's building in the Foothills.
Interest in solar energy seems to be everywhere, from government to commerce to consumers, with new manufacturing and new jobs on Tucson's horizon. |
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| George Villec of GeoInnovation LLC sets up a solar array on a Foothills roof. Tax credits and rebates from TEP will pay for much of the cost. |
District 8 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, has said she wants Southern Arizona to become the "Solar-con Valley" of the United States. She has introduced legislation to promote training a solar-industry work force and to set up an initiative for states to receive money for advancing commercial applications of solar technology.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has called our state the "Saudi Arabia of solar energy within the United States," and she recently signed legislation to prevent homeowners' associations from restricting the use of solar systems.
15% renewable by 2025
Political attention aside, solar is also gaining steam at the Arizona Corporation Commission, which recently decreed that all |
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| George Villec, president of GeoInnovation LLC, works on routing the wires for a 96-panel solar array on the roof of a Foothills home. |
utilities must generate 15 percent of the state's energy from
renewable resources by 2025. At that time, about 5 percent of the energy must come from solar cells.
That's good news for consumers, who can take advantage of tax credits and rebate programs as utilities scramble to meet that edict. New, possibly better, incentives might be on the way as well.
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