A Place in the Sun Is Maryland’s Solar-Power Future Shining
Bright Or Partly Cloudy? Standing there watching this, a
satisfied, knowing grin emerges on Yuhas’ face. For this
seemingly dead electric meter is not a cause for alarm or
consternation. Rather, it represents a small victory, both a
personal one and one for something far beyond the personal. For
even late in the afternoon on a June Sunday, when the sun is
already far in the west and beginning to sink in the sky, there
is still enough radiant light striking the flat black panels on
the roof of the Pasadena home Yuhas shares with his wife,
Frances, to supply their home with all the electricity it needs.
At that moment there’s no need for an additional single kilowatt
of electricity from Baltimore Gas and Electric and its coal,
oil, or nuclear energy suppliers. The solar electric panels are
doing it all. “This solar system follows with what I and my wife
believe,” says Yuhas, a former electrical engineer. “To use the
sun that we all have every day and p