Cate Blanchett is Feeling Sunny and Powerful

Now that she’s done “greening up” her Sydney mansion, and as she gets underway with plans to make the Sydney Theater Company the first theater company in the world to be able to (possibly) perform an entire season relying on it’s own green energy, Cate Blanchett is putting her money into another environmental venture — Sungevity home solar systems.

The actress is the primary investor in the California company, and it looks like she chose a smart place to invest her cash. Sungevity aims to make going solar easy in California by allowing people to learn about and purchase a solar electric system online.

If you live in California, it’s as simple as going to Sungevity’s website and entering your address. From there, satellite-imaging software will look at your home, calculate your roof’s dimensions, select the proper solar arrays, and show you what they would look like installed. Plus, it will compute your return on the investment. Cool, right?

Cate knows a good investment when she sees it. Sungevity’s website lists the different ways in which an investment in solar energy will save you money. Of course, your electric bills will be dramatically reduced, and the value of your investment will increase with the rising cost of electricity. Plus, you might be eligible for cash and tax rebates to offset the cost of implementing your solar system.

Now we can only hope that Sungevity will go nation- and world-wide, so the rest of us can check out our potential solar savings, too!

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