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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:
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Australian Utility Explores Solar-Plus-Storage and Demand Response for Substation Deferral
More electricity utility experience managing distributed assets. In this case, having batteries distributed limited the upgrade of transmission. While it'll be a risk to have everything interconnected, the value will be immense...just like stupid Facebook. Source -...
LG Chem Lands New Cobalt Deals With Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt
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Illinois Caterpillar dealer installs 500-kW solar system with Cat-branded thin-film panels
What interests me about this is that a reseller of solar panels, adding their own branding, can still make money. However, CAT is different - I bet people ask them all the time to develop projects. So they make broader construction money, not just hardware markups....