Pete Frates Solar Panels

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Pete frates solar panels.

Pete frates dead at 34. Image copyright getty. A local solar panel company is putting in free panels for pete frates the former boston college baseball player with als who launched the ice bucket challenge. He grew up in beverly ma and attended st.

Pete frates the former college baseball star who helped inspire the viral ice bucket challenge has died. That s where boston solar comes in donating a 60 000 solar installation to the family. The now infamous story of course started with the impenetrable spirit of pete frates who was diagnosed with. Als david wade ice bucket challenge pete frates solar energy.

Now with the help of woburn based boston solar the frates s household will be running at maximum operational efficiency with minimal environmental impact. A former captain of the boston college baseball team and professional baseball player in europe pete frates was diagnosed with als in march of 2012 at the age of 27. John s preparatory school 03 and boston college 07. Pete s story peter is the son of john and nancy frates grandson of jerry and joan d alfonso and jack and margaret frates brother of jenn and dan mayo and andrew frates.

A woburn company donated 60 000 in solar panels to the frates family to help lower their electricity bill. The weird space beyond our solar system. Ted ed recommended for you. The frates home in beverly ma complete with a 13kw solar panel system.

Boston solar saw the need and decided to help by donating a top of the line solar array of 40 panels to harness the sun s energy and reduce the frates electric bill to pretty much zero. Frates has become a household name across the north shore since the ice bucket challenge debuted in the summer of 2014. Pete frates home sully 2018 02 20t19 19 23 00 00. At sjp he was a 4 year member.

With this system their bill should go from a thousand dollars a month to zero says chris buchanan from boston solar. Woburn company donates solar panels to frates family by david wade january 14 2016 at 6 46 pm filed under.