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WHAT I’LL DO FOR YOUR SOLAR PROJECT:
Financial Analysis
Provide a financial analysis, including electricity production, revenue stream projections, tax consequences, and operations and maintenance costs.
Cost Breakdown
Deliver a complete cost breakdown of components, labor, and services. This includes: comparisons with national data and profit margins.
Layout Design
Design the layout of a complete solar system, defining a bill of materials.
Paperwork
Handle the paperwork that drives federal incentives, the local power company, permits, and state-level requirements.
Project Management
Act as your Project Developer and guide you through professional scrutiny – with electrical and structural engineers, CPAs and bankers, permitting and hiring contractors.
Commercial Solar Guy News:
Massachusetts’ SMART program fills up fast
This article originally appeared on pv magazine USA. Beginnings are difficult times. And given the delayed roll-out and pent-up demand for Massachusetts’ SMART program, it was long projected that some portions of the program would rapidly fill up as soon as it became...
SMART solar tour complete, Massachusetts DOER readies launch
The State of Massachusetts completed a seven stop tour educating the public on its newest electricity grid development program - the 1.6 GW SMART solar program. As the highly successful SREC programs come to an end on November 26, at 12 PM EST, over 11,000 direct...
Massachusetts’ SMART program is a go – the details matter though
The solar power market in Massachusetts is the perfect example of the infamous solar-coaster. The state's highly successful SREC & SREC II programs both ended faster than politicians expected, leaving large gaps of market continuity after each of the programs...
Agrovoltaics: a solar-powered safety net for Massachusetts farmers
The long-term, steady income of solar power complements the higher revenue, but harder work of traditional farming. The Massachusetts SMART program looks to increase this trend with "agrovoltaic" incentives for solar co-located with crops. They're called solar farms...
Massachusetts calls for ‘Clean Peak Standard’ to green dirtiest, most expensive power
The State specified that retail electricity suppliers must provide customers with clean electricity during defined 'clean peak periods', at less than $0.005/kWh averaged across annual usage. The State of Massachusetts has put forth plans that will require retail...
SMART problems in Massachusetts
The state's upcoming solar program looks as if it will very quickly move through allocated volume, stranding developers and installers and tens of millions of dollars worth of projects. The State of Massachusetts has a solar powered problem on its hands. The problem...