After 18 years of dreaming, planning, calculating and saving this home's solar array turned out to be a final gift of love this man gave to his wife. Arnie Garlick spent much of his life planning for his home to be a net zero energy home and lived long enough to see the installation completed. Three weeks later he succumbed to lung cancer.

The solar array will continue to provide energy and be a tangible legacy that his widow Cheri can enjoy for the next twenty five years.