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 When Rex Sauls talks about solar, his eyes light up like a kid in a candy store. He’s hooked! Rex’s passion for solar began decades ago through his love and interest in solar cars. He always thought that harvesting energy from the sun was a better alternative to fossil fuels. Over the years, he let his solar passion simmer while he pursued careers as a studio cameraman for a television network, to a salesman, ranging from part sales at a motorcycle shop to even owning a pet store with his wife.

“When Hurricane Sandy hit I was at home finishing up dinner. I looked out the door and saw the water coming up my street. I called my neighbor who had a two-story house and said, ‘I’m coming over with the cat.’”

Helen Wilson, a 13-year resident of Union Beach, soon realized that she, like so many other families in this hard-hit town, would not be going home again. But now, 18 months later, Wilson is getting ready to move into a brand new, solar-powered home.