There are important updates to the SGIP rebate program coming. The good news is SGIP AB 209 incentive budgets are open for submissions and will remain so. However, CPUC Decision 25-12-003 impacts the SGIP Rebate Program significatnly on December 31, 2025. SGIP ratepayer incentive budgets are closing for new ratepayer application submissions including applications being …
Learn to Love Solar HOA ARC Apps
You’ve received an architectural application for a rooftop solar installation so what do you do next?
So Now the Board Expects You to Be a Solar Expert?
Your Board just had their monthly meeting and now they expect you to be a solar expert and electrical engineer. Just how many hats can a HOA manager wear? You only need to wear one hat when you have the right solar contractor in your contacts, Makello.
Bypass Hurdles with the HOA and Landlord
Homeowners or tenants in HOAs, apartment dwellers and condo owners are often discouraged from energy upgrades like solar panels, Plug-In Vehicle charging, LED lighting and energy storage. With a little research, anyone can take steps towards energy independence. California’s “Solar Rights Act” defends your right to produce power in California. The HOA may restrict, deny …
How the Competition Cuts Corners
Below are 4 topics to teach you how unethical solar installers can cut-corners where the homeowner and the permit inspector won’t see it, in order to lower the bid price. Poor quality installation techniques can only save money in the short term. Eventually, the home repairs for potential water leak damage will outweigh any cost …
Buyer’s Rights for Energy Upgrades
How does a homeowner build superior quality workmanship into the solar panel bidding process, to protect the home from the risk of water leak, accidental injury, electrical shock and fire hazards? Makello documents the site survey and installation techniques with step by step photos and videos. Proof of quality workmanship is a “Buyer’s Right”. Are …
Quality Installation Lasts A Lifetime
Can you name any electrical appliance, other than solar panels, that can work uninterrupted, for 30 years or longer? Long term power production and cost savings is only part of the bigger picture. For example, how much do you save with solar if a poor quality installation causes a roof leak? Are you ready to save money …
My UCSD Internship at Wipomo
In the summer of 2015, I worked full-time for the San Diego based energy efficiency company Wipomo. Overall, I had a great and very rewarding learning experience, especially since this was the first internship that I completed in the sustainability and alternative energy sector, an area I would like to work in after graduation. As …
Solar Rights Act & Solar Shading Act
In my neighborhood, in Cardiff By-The-Sea, Californa, the community of single story homes are being replaced by larger 2 and 3 story mansions with imported high water use vegetation. If the character of the neighborhood is changing, what can you do about it? You can block a permit or remove a tree if the proposed …
Solar Installation Exclusive Green Energy EPC
Sam Syed, owner of Green Energy EPC, has started and trained a community of over 200 photovoltaic systems installers and project developers in San Diego. Many of his students earn NABCEP accreditation, the highest standard of certification in the solar industry for photovoltaic systems installation. The values that Sam teaches in the classroom are the same …
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