Solar, Heat Pumps & Roofing in Somers, CT

Local Home Electrification

Solar & Heat Pump Installation in Somers, Tolland County and All Communities

Somers sits on the Massachusetts line in northern Tolland County, a farm town where thousands of acres are preserved through the state's purchase of development rights program. Somers Center is the main village and Somersville is the second, a mill village on the Scantic River where the Billings Mill ran from 1839 until 1969. To the east, Shenipsit State Forest began in 1927 at the summit of Soapstone Mountain, where its observation tower still stands.

There is no natural gas in Somers yet. The town's 2026 plan states that gas service is not presently available, with an extension from Enfield to Stafford along Route 190 still in planning, and Census figures show about 73 percent of homes burning fuel oil and another 14 percent propane. Most properties also rely on private wells and septic, with public water limited to Somers Center, Somersville and some adjacent areas.

Outages here are well documented. During Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 about 65 percent of Somers residents lost power and 5 percent were still out by Thursday, and the October 2019 nor'easter cut power to more than 2,700 homes and businesses, over half the town. The housing came in two big waves, the 1960s and 1970s and then the 2000s, for a median year built of 1979, and about ninety percent of homes are detached single-family.

What Makes Somers Projects Different

• Public sewer is limited to Somersville, served by the town's treatment plant on the Scantic River, the state correctional facilities through an arrangement with Enfield, and a community septic system at Maple Ridge Road, so most Somers homes are on private septic.
• The Somers and Somersville historic districts are National Register listings only, and the town's plan calls them essentially honorary, but Somers Center and Somersville are zoning village districts with design standards and mandatory Design Advisory Board review.
• In the floodplain overlay, heat pumps, air conditioning units and oil and propane tanks must sit at least one foot above base flood elevation, which matters along the Scantic River, which flooded the Somersville mill in 2005.
• The Building Department requires a trench inspection, a gas pressure test and a transfer test before it finals a standby generator, and an electrician on site with the panel cover off for solar finals, for homes from Hall Hill to Somers Center.

Permits & Interconnection in Somers

Somers permits come from the Building Department at 600 Main Street, open Monday through Wednesday 8 to 5, Thursday until 6:30 and closed Fridays, and every inspection needs twenty-four hours' notice. Permits are filed online, and fees are based on estimated job cost rounded up to the next thousand dollars. Somers runs its own health department rather than a regional district, so septic and well questions go to the town's Director of Health and Land Use. Projects in Somers Center or Somersville may also go through village district design review.