L to R: David Billson, Field Manager, with installers Enrique Magana, Wilmar Escobar , Xavier Tobias, Ronald Escobar and Jerome Strain seen on the roof of Parsons Hall at the California Divinity School Of The Pacific, during installation of phase one…
UPDATE: The deadline for signing up for the E-6 rate schedule has been extended to May 31. E-6 remains the best rate schedule for solar customers. If you already have solar, or are in the process of installing, make sure…
PG&E is discontinuing its very solar-friendly A-6 commercial rate in December 2016. For this and several other reasons, businesses who own their own buildings should take a hard look at solar now. By acting this year, new solar businesses will…
If you Google "PG&E Rate Increase," you will find a single article from December 2015, that reports on a 7% rate increase beginning in January 2016. If that was the whole picture, it would be a minor thing, and mostly in line…
Most people rarely notice what PG&E is up to. In this case, the company is making a number of changes to their rate schedules. None of these changes are particularly good for you, the energy customer. First, the E-7 rate schedule, which…
People still have a tendency to think of solar as alternative energy. Yet today, there is nothing alternative about solar. It is really the energy company that is second choice. By most relevant measures, solar clearly is the first choice in energy for a home…
If you have shopped for a solar PV system, you know that most salespeople will make system size the main focus. The system size will be measured in kiloWatts, most often DC Watts (STC), which is what you get when you…
Have you been thinking about installing solar on your house? Here are some common traps you should be aware of. I spoke with a solar salesperson on the phone, who told me they could get me a solar PV system "for free,"…
Two important developments in 2015 will make 2016 another good year to install solar on your house. First, PG&E and other utilities in California were largely rebuffed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in their efforts to make solar less…
From the Marin Independent Journal, an article about how houses of worship are embracing solar as a powerful tool to improve their stewardship of the environment. With Pope Francis bringing the issue front and center with his environmental encyclical, both the Episcopal…
