residential solar Archives - Page 4 of 9

Connecting 150,000 solar customers to PG&E’s electric grid

Heather Van Schoiack | Mar 26, 2015

This week, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced a major milestone: connection of 150,000 solar customers to their electric grid. This achievement is the result of PG&E’s long commitment to supporting their customers going solar, and comes with some...

Three reasons it’s time for utilities to think seriously about distributed solar interconnection

Scott Tewel | Oct 9, 2014

When home and business owners decide to go solar, they embark on an adventure that will require navigation of a multi-step process that includes soliciting and evaluating proposals, determining financing, and applying for permits, incentives and interconnection....

New York State solar incentive programs consolidated into NY-Sun

Scott Tewel | Aug 22, 2014

This month, under direction from the New York State Governor’s office, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and PSEG Long Island (now operating Long Island Power Authority’s electric system) merged their solar incentive programs under...

29 million answers to the question “What can solar do for me?”

Brian Boler | Jun 12, 2014

The calculations to determine whether or not solar is a good investment are not simple—unless you’re using the Clean Power Estimator® solar calculator. Since we started counting 10 years ago, Clean Power Estimator has performed more than 29 million solar savings...

PowerClerk auto-document generation and electronic signature features streamline incentive and interconnection processing

Scott Tewel | Jun 5, 2014

Taking paper intensive processes online can dramatically simplify what formerly would have been manual, time-consuming administrative tasks. For the solar industry, this can help reduce soft costs, which today account for more than 60 percent of the cost of installing...