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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:
In the race to build massive solar power projects, India is poised to beat China
This is the type of international competition we could use. To a degree though it is these two countries who should be building these largest systems in the world. It's especially great that India is going so strong into solar, as their development has been slower...
Hurricane Maria moves Solartech Universal’s expansion to South Florida
Solartech Universal plans to expand its current 80 MW/year capacity by 180 MW/year. The company is seeking a facility in South Florida. …
Construction firm purchases wind farm plus its high voltage power line
"Pattern Energy Group 2 has acquired the 1GW Mesa Canyons wind farm and Western Spirit transmission line in New Mexico from Clean Line Energy Partners for an undisclosed amount." Just thought it was interesting that construction firm who plans to build also bought the...
Next-gen solar cell assembly by Henkel
Check out the images to get a nice visualization of solar cells being linked together (sorry I didn't include, fixing website stuff still!). You've got to look closely at the left image (shingle cells) to really see the connections. Incremental advances. SOURCE: More...
Japanese solar glass company opening US factory, restarting Vietnamese
And it might really just be a First Solar solar glass company, but that's pretty cool and it's a direct example of a job from solar panel manufacturing that isn't reflected inside of the solar panel factory. SOURCE: Nippon Sheet Glass will invest around 40 billion yen...
World’s Largest solar thermal plant nearing completion – Morocco
Im pretty sure larger are on the drawing block, but this one is about to fully turn on. I listened to a presentation comparing the merits of solar thermal vs solar pv, and the main driver of solar thermal was cheap energy storage today, and very competitive costs....