Credit Carlito2000 / Creative Commons More and more the alternative solar energy source is merging onto the power grid. It comes with a greater potential than wind energy for individual households to produce and sell power. Senator Dave Koehler and his wife Nora Sullivan had a solar array installed Thursday, October 4, 2018, n a newly constructed carport at their historic home in Peoria. Koehler was a co-sponsorship of the Future Energy Jobs Act. So he says it was important to him to lead by example. But Koehler says for and his wife it was a good decision. “People need to be thinking about this right now. The economics are here. The technology is here. So this makes sense,” Koehler said.