If you're paying $12,000+/month in electricity and still researching solar, every month of delay costs you not only tens of thousands in direct electricity savings, but it could end up destroying the viability of your project.
| Critical Path | Performance Time |
|---|---|
| Perform Feasibility Study | 2 weeks |
| Submit Utility Application | 4 - 6 weeks |
| Secure Financial Commitment | 1 - 4 weeks |
| Deploy Capital to Secure Incentives | 1 week |
After this date, the 30-40% Federal Tax Credits disappear.
A project that would cost $3mm today, net of incentives, will cost an extra $1.3mm - $2.0mm this summer if you remain indecisive. Even with zero-down financing, one way or the other this 43-67% development cost increase will be felt by you.
The result: More confusion than clarity. Different production estimates, varying escalation rates, inconsistent financing terms. While attempting to make an informed decision, the clock is ticking and your window of opportunity is closing.
You've got questions, and they shouldn't go unanswered. What better way to connect the dots than by using your project as the perfect real world example?
Independent assessment of whether solar makes economic sense for your specific facility and usage profile.
Trust is the foundation of our value. If solar doesn't make sense, that's OK because maybe another solution does.
Definitive answer within weeks, not months of continued research. For solar especially, the timeline must be treated as the absolute priority.
12 months of electric bills + 15-minute interval data, both should be easily downloadable from your utility account. PDFs help us understand your account structure, interval data helps us understand your usage patterns and evaluate the impact of batteries. Takes you about 10 minutes.
First, we put everything together to understand our starting point: your actual usage patterns, roof capacity, sun exposure, local utility rates, available incentives, and financing options. Then we run the numbers on solar, solar+storage, and alternative solutions, hyper-focused on YOUR financial returns and potential risks, not what makes the most commission for us.
Our process is all about the numbers, not carefully crafted sales pitches. Your project will clearly fall into one of three scenarios: (1) There's a clear path for Solar or Solar+Storage to makes sense, and here's why we're so confident, (2) There's a bit of risk here, here's what will need to go right as we dig deeper; or (3) This is going to be hard to justify, here's what makes your situation unique, and what else we should look into instead.
If you're in scenario 1) or 2) the next step is where all the heavy lifting is done : preliminary engineering, vendor selection, and submitting an Interconnection Application to your utility. The good news is that you'll have very little to worry about - we've got deep experience and a big network to pull together all the right pieces while you focus on running your business. And, your risk is still low - you won't actually need to make the final decision to move forward with construction until after we get the technical elements in place with positive feedback from your utility.
We've got all the engineering and financial details worked out, vendors at the ready to execute, and we've got your utility's blessing. Time to pull the trigger and give us your final sign off.
Pretty self explanatory. Your team will be solid, your contract will be solid, and while construction always has its little hiccups, we'll be there to help everyone navigate while keeping your best interest in mind.
Simple : We offer multiple distributed energy solutions, not just solar.
Solar installers only generate revenue from solar installations. We offer five different solutions. If solar isn't optimal for your facility, we can recommend alternatives from Day 1. This structural difference enables objectivity that one-trick vendors cannot provide.
Having our model built around options gives us more opportunities for honesty. Every business uses electricity, and if you're in one of our target markets, there's a good chance we can do something to help you pay less for it.
It's simple : if we we guarantee your project will save you money and it doesn't, we'll make it right or refund up to 100% of our profit (net real costs).
Terms: Submitting a project request does not automatically qualify you. Terms & Conditions of our guarantee must be verified in writing prior to construction. Alternative solutions may include the expansion of generation capacity.
Rationale: With $500M+ in advised projects and 10+ years of experience, we're extremely experienced modeling project economics. If we steer you wrong, we should not profit from it.
We're here to help you make the best decision for your business. If you're not ready to decide this fast, you can still reach out but we may need to talk after the summer or just skip solar and start looking at other options from Day 1.
Request FAST AnalysisYou don't have to decide to execute a construction contract in 2 weeks. The 2-week analysis tells you whether or not solar seems like a good fit for your specific business location. But the longer you wait just to get started, the more you run the risk of losing this opportunity.
Fast doesn't mean sloppy. We know exactly what to look for: roof condition, electrical capacity, utility rate structure, local incentives, financing options, and site-specific factors. You're not "rushing" - you're leveraging our expertise to compress 6 months of research into 2 weeks of professional analysis.
Solar installers only make money if you buy solar from them specifically. We make money if we help you find any solution you can feel confident in. Sometimes that's solar. Sometimes it's batteries. Sometimes it's commodity management. We have no incentive to lie to you - our reputation is built on being competitent partners for your and our industry leading financial and construction affiliates.
If you're in a high cost of energy geography and can purchase the system in cash then there's still a chance this could work. We often see 3-4 year break-even rates. If you want zero-down financing, however, that requires a 15+ year commitment, so it's probably not a good fit. See? We just saved you time by being honest.
Even if rates stay flat (they haven't stayed flat in 50 years, even before the data center boom), you could still be generating a surplus - many of our clients are cash flow positive from Day 1. Rate increases just make your surplus bigger over time. We can show any scenario: conservative (2-3% annual increases), expected (4-5%), and aggressive (6-7%).
They might, but that's a big gamble. We know the tax credits are going to expire, and we know they're worth millions of dollars. What exactly is the "worst case" here anyway? That you started saving money TOO EARLY?
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