About ETM Solar Works

Our prime directive is to bring environmentally friendly solar and wind power to as many people on planet Earth as possible. This is our 20th year in business!

ETM specializes in solar energy systems. We install solar electric systems and solar hot water heaters on residences and commercial buildings and repair existing solar energy systems. We install other renewable energy systems such as wind generators.

ETM is a woman-owned business. We use what we sell. ETM is solar powered. ETM’s web-site is on a solar powered server. ETM President, Dr. Gay E. Canough, is also treasurer of the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA:www.nyseia.org) and instructor for over 100 Solar Installer courses. We have been in business since 1988.

We started out doing aerospace consulting work (ETM is short for Extraterrestrial Materials). Our main claim to fame in space business was the conceptual design of the Lunar Prospector, a small robotic spacecraft that orbited the Moon in 98-99 looking for water at the lunar poles. We also did work on space solar power for the Space Studies Institute in Princeton and NASA.

In 1993 we decided to bring the resources of space to Earth more directly and go into the “terrestrial” solar energy business (solar energy being a valuable and easily accessible resource from space!) Since then we have installed over 1 megwatt of photovoltaics in New York and New Jersey.

Member: Better Business Bureau, New York Solar Energy Industries Association, Southern Tier Homebuilders and Remodelers Association, and the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce.

G. Canough is a certified master trainer. Institute of Sustainable Power http://www.irecusa.org/index.php?id=91 and a certified PV installer (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners, www.nabcep.org). ETM has a master electrician license in Suffolk County.

Projects include:

  • 2007: Installed 42 kW PV System on a School in Liberty NY
  • 2006-2007: We installed over 200 kW of residential PV this year along with more PV systems for schools.
  • 2005: Solar electric systems installed on municipal and county buildings such as 40 kW at the Albany County Hockey Facility.
  • 2005: Installed 7 kW PV systems for the New York Power Authority solar schools project.
  • 2004: Installed PV systems on schools for the School Power Naturally Program (NYSERDA)
  • 2003: Installed 40 kW PV system at NY Dept. of Transportation facility along with various residential and small commercial systems.
  • 2001-present: LIPA Solar Pioneer contractor; installed net metering photovoltaic (PV) systems on homes in Long Island.
  • 2001-present: Installed net metering photovoltaic (PV) systems on homes in upstate NY,
  • 2001 to present: We have the maintenance contract for New York Power Authority’s large PV systems.
  • 2000: Installed 186 kW PV system on the Tompkins Co Library in Ithaca NY
  • 1999: People with utility power started to switch to solar power. We installed 7 PV systems on suburban homes.
  • 1996-98: Installed 4 grid-interactive PV systems for NYSEG demos on residences.
  • 1997, 1998: Installed 2 kW PV systems for NYS Police on Cathead and Black Mountains in Adirondacks.
  • 1993 to present We have installed numerous off-grid systems for people with remote homes and cabins. All of these are still operational.