Solar, Heat Pumps & Roofing in Burlington, CT

Local Home Electrification

Solar & Heat Pump Installation in Burlington, Hartford County and All Communities

Burlington has decided, as municipal policy, not to build sewers. The Water Pollution Control Authority's own regulations state that sewer avoidance should be applied to the entire town and that public sewers shall not be extended to undeveloped areas. The town's plan of conservation and development adds that most households rely on wells, from Burlington Center out to Nepaug and Lake Garda.

Put those together and a Burlington outage is not an inconvenience. No power means no well pump, which means no water and no working toilet, in a town where about ninety-five percent of homes are owner-occupied single-family houses on an acre or more. That is why backup power leads most conversations in Chippens Hill, Whigville and out toward Johnny Cake Mountain.

Burlington is also the rare Hartford County town with no local historic district at all, stated plainly in its own plan, so no design commission stands between a homeowner and a roof, an array or a generator pad. The real constraint here is canopy: roughly forty-seven percent of the town's land is open space or watershed land, which is why a Chippens Hill or Nepaug shade study decides more arrays than roof geometry does.

What Makes Burlington Projects Different

• Burlington's Water Pollution Control Authority regulations state that sewer avoidance should be applied to the entire town and that public sewers shall not be extended to undeveloped areas, so septic and private wells are the town's permanent design.
• Burlington's plan of conservation and development states that the town has no local historic districts, so unlike Windsor, Canton or Cheshire there is no certificate of appropriateness step before exterior work.
• Burlington zoning lists ground-mounted solar as a permitted accessory use in the R-44 zone with written standards: behind the front wall of the house, at least twelve feet from a side lot line, thirty-five feet from the rear, no more than eighteen feet tall, with exterior wiring buried in conduit.
• About forty-seven percent of Burlington's land area is open space or water company watershed land, including Nassahegon State Forest and Sessions Woods, which is why canopy shading rather than roof geometry usually decides an array here.

Permits & Interconnection in Burlington

Burlington permits come from the Town of Burlington Building Department at 200 Spielman Highway, and note the short Friday hours. The certified zoning enforcement official reviews plans before they reach the building official, so zoning compliance is settled first. Ground-mounted solar in R-44 follows a written permitted accessory use standard rather than requiring a special permit.