SALISBURY - Joel Hager admits it costs a dollar or two to get a house up and running with solar energy.

But once that initial expense is taken care of, Hager said, it's smooth sailing.

"Once the cost is offset," he said, "you're profiting."

In the not-too-distant future, Hager expects to be profiting from the solar equipment he was having installed Wednesday at his house on Bonanza Drive northwest of Salisbury.

Technicians from Southern Energy Management in Morrisville (near Raleigh) were at Hager's house installing 50 huge tubes on a roof panel. The tubes are used to collect solar energy for heating water....

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