| Mercury Solar Systems Helps Fuel Long Island | | | | more than 71,610 pounds of carbon dioxide, which is |
| Commercial Solar Marketwith Suffolk Transportation | | | | equivalent to recycling 964,920 cans of soda, not |
| Installation | | | | burning 3,687 gallons of gasoline and planting 5 acres |
| Mercury Solar Systems, one of the leading solar | | | | of trees. |
| integrators on the East Coast, today announced that | | | | “The Long Island solar market continues to |
| it has installed one of the larger commercial solar | | | | rapidly develop. LIPA’s cash rebates reduce the |
| energy systems on Long Island for Suffolk | | | | initial investment of going solar by 50% and the |
| Transportation Service, Inc., operators of school and | | | | federal tax credit reduces it by an additional 30%. For |
| public buses throughout Suffolk County. The 51 | | | | a commercial solar system that translates into an |
| kilowatt (kW) 255-panel system was installed on the | | | | extremely attractive return on investment that will |
| company’s state-of-the-art headquarters in Bay | | | | generate pollution free electricity savings up to 40 |
| Shore, NY. | | | | years,” said Kevin P. Harvey, General Manager, |
| The solar energy system will produce approximately | | | | Mercury Solar Systems. “We believe these |
| 57,623 kilowatt hours (kW/hr) of electricity annually | | | | financials are very compelling and have increased our |
| and will save Suffolk Transportation approximately | | | | internal resources to meet the needs of this growing |
| $10,718 in electricity costs per year. It will also offset | | | | customer base in 2010 and beyond. |