Going solar
Wayne Davison, of Northern Solar, checks the copper transfer area at the top of a set of solar-collecting vacuum tubes he installed recently at a Bloomingdale home.
(Enterprise photo — Jessica Collier)
With not much sun and freezing-cold winters, the Adirondack Park isn’t the easiest area in which to use solar energy. But some people are trying. Tupper Laker Wayne Davison is installing the first residential evacuated-tube solar collectors in the North Country. Recently, Davison, along with partner David Fortino, decided to form an offshoot of their construction company, D&D Artisans, that would concentrate on solar energy. They are calling it Northern Solar. While there are several other solar and alternative-energy companies operating in the North Country-area with offices nearby, Northern Solar is the only one based in the Tri-Lakes. Davison said he and his partner first got interested in renewable energy while building houses. They were in general contracting for 13 years and found they were constantly looking for ways to make homes more energy efficient, trying to improve efficiency with every house they built.
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