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What is a Power Purchase Agreement?
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You’ve made the decision to rein in the expense of utilities for your business and you’re exploring solar. It may have surprised you how many ways there are to finance a solar system. Some businesses pay cash, and usually break even on their investments in 3-4 years – with decades of free electricity rolling in after that. But what if you don’t want to spend money up front? What if you don’t have ...
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What is NEM 3.0? The clock is ticking.
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Net Energy Metering (NEM) is a rate policy from which thousands of California households and businesses have benefited. But it is about to drastically change for the worse. The California Public Utilities Commission is the government body that votes on how utilities like Southern California Edison (SCE) charge their customers for electricity. They have recently passed NEM 3.0, which compensates ...
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A Big Solar Incentive Is About to Shrink
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Tax incentives that make it more advantageous for a company to go solar are about to be significantly reduced. It’s a good time to familiarize yourself with the Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) because it’s going away, and so are significant potential savings. When Did the Solar Tax Credit Start? The ITC was enacted in 2006, and since then the U.S. solar industry has grown one hundredfold. In ...
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What Is Cool Roofing?
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Most people think of a roof as something that protects from the rain, and a bad roof is referred to as a “leaky roof.” But in Southern California, there are other elements that beat down on the flat roofs of many commercial buildings more constantly and severely than rain: heat and sunlight. That’s where cool roofs come in. What Is A Cool Roof? A cool roof protects structures from rain, but are ...
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