Three little letters that trigger the time to celebrate… The process to solarize any property, regardless of size, from warehouse rooftop to solar farm, follows set milestones along highly customized paths that vary from one project to the next. The path is seldom flat and never entirely smooth. From the moment a project becomes a [...]

Two significant news broke last week carrying intrinsic messages of hope: Tuesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions (FERC) revealed that 95% of all the new electrical plants built in the first quarter of 2018 were powered by renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass, hydro, geothermal). As far as building new plants to generate electricity, coal is [...]

India is on a solar tear. Even after a possible slow down in 2018, it will outpace the US in total growth. India’s central government’s push into solar power will place it ahead of Japan in total capacity. Its goal is to build at more than twice the rate of the US and Japan combined. [...]

Staten is expanding. Two warehouses are now operational in northern California that will store up to 400kW worth of modules and equipment. It may seem odd to share excitement about adding warehouses, but in this industry, in this market, where the news of tariffs woes, entropy and failed solar companies gone bankrupt are part of [...]

Mountain View The path to a renewable economy is paved with local acts of progress… Building codes rule; they cannot be ignored, they cannot be misinterpreted. Yet, technology develops faster than regulations. Codes lag; and often Building Department heads can’t take the time to sit down and evaluate new strategies. Engineers, architects, clients are frustrated, [...]