While solar energy pays for itself and then some, it’s still too big an investment to make blindly. So here are some facts to help you make that investment wisely and safely – with an installation that performs as promised and gives you decades of trouble-free, dependable service. Choose the type of system More than…
Category: Certification
Choosing a solar installer: No one more cares more than you do
Despite the effects of the recently imposed tariff on imported solar products, courtesy of SolarWorld and Suniva, most people in the industry are still predicting a big year in 2018 for residential solar. The big commercial integrators – the people that buy solar modules by the thousands – will certainly take a hit. But they…
Considering Panasonic Solar's HIT® Module system? Make sure to choose an Authorized Installer.
Lately, it seems, almost every solar installer in West Virginia is scrambling to sell Panasonic HIT Solar Modules. In a way, that makes sense. Panasonic certainly makes great modules. But while all these installers are offering Panasonic modules, and can buy them at a number of distribution outlets, Panasonic has qualified only one company in…
What it takes to be a Qualified Solar Installer
In a recent post I wrote that an Electrician license alone – even a Master Electrician license – does not qualify you to design and install solar systems. I totally respect the fact that a Master license is a great achievement that requires significant experience and training, but it’s not solar specific. Some took exception…
Solar Systems and Storage – What you need to know
If there’s more common buzzword in the solar industry today than storage, I don’t know what it would be. As is the case with many terms in the solar world, storage can mean different things – depending on who’s using it. In its most basic use, storage means electric potential stored in a battery…