In this week’s Solar News Roundup, renewables are projected to produce more than coal in the U.S. for the first time ever, and a summary of our new report on consumer and installer sentiment during COVID-19 times.
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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: there’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to solar panel systems. Where you buy your solar panels from or who you decide to contract with for installation will depend on your personal preferences, how you want to finance the system, and the type of system you want to install. In this article, we’ll evaluate several options for buying solar panel systems, including wholesale resellers, national installation companies, Amazon solar kits, and EnergySage.
Continue readingIf you’re shopping around for a solar energy system, you undoubtedly have questions that you want to ask your solar company. But what questions are the most important ones to ask an installer?
The decision-making process is a bit easier if you divide the questions into two ‘stages’: First, you can ask the key questions which allow you to understand the value that their product offers. This will help you to rule out the options which are definitely not for you. After you’ve answered these questions, you can ask the questions that will help you make the final choice between this narrowed-down range of options. We discuss some of these questions below.
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EnergySage and Green America, a national nonprofit organization working to create a green economy, today announced that they have partnered to help U.S. homeowners “get all the facts” about solar adoption as well as secure the lowest possible price when purchasing quality systems.
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Last week, the NC Clean Energy Technology Center at NC State University, a partner in the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership (SolarOPs), released a report ranking America’s largest cities according to the financial value solar offers residential customers in those cities. Today, the Center released its customer-facing companion report,“Going Solar in America: Ranking Solar’s Value to Consumers in America’s Largest Cities”, which, in addition to explaining the results of the analysis delivered in the previous report, dives into the different policy, incentive, and financing options available to customers considering solar.
Highlights of the customer-facing report include:
1. According to data shared with us by EnergySage, the leading online marketplace for solar, total installed solar PV system prices have declined from $10/W in the late 1990s by 60% to less than $4/W nationwide on average in the 3rd Quarter of 2014. Continue reading
