Hi, I'm John Weaver, your commercial solar energy consultant. When you work with me, you get 15 years of financial, engineering, and construction experience to guide you through your project-- from concept, to paperwork, to digging the dirt and throwing that final switch.
Call me for a 15-minute consultation, and we'll determine if we are the right fit. You can also contact me here.
What I'll do for your solar project:
Provide a financial analysis, including electricity production, revenue stream projections, tax consequences, and operations and maintenance costs.
Deliver a complete cost breakdown of components, labor, and services. This includes: comparisons with national data and profit margins.
Design the layout of a complete solar system, defining a bill of materials.
Handle the paperwork that drives federal incentives, the local power company, permits and state level requirements.
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:
Solar cell efficiency record, but a product delayed
On December 21, 2020 OxFord PV announced that they set a new record for a perovskite-silicon tandem research solar cell at 29.52%. The perovskite cell was placed atop a monoPERC NType silicon solar cell. This efficiency percentage broke the very recently set record of 29.15% by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, who had just announced their solar cell…
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Clean energy storage everywhere, the promise of HVDC, Elon’s $100M carbon capture, & more! Podcast #30
The Clean Power Hour – a weekly clean energy headline review and commentary podcast run by Tim Montague, and yours truly – the CommercialSolarGuy – John Fitzgerald Weaver. First of course, here’s the podcast – Episode 30! Now, to the news! Elon Musk announces he’ll donate $100 million toward the best carbon capture technology. As…
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Corporate solar = utility solar = rooftop solar, both growing and shrinking
The commercial and industrial solar market is broad – from a few panels on a storage facility, to a 500 acre solar power facility built to feed a Colorado steel mill, to the largest solar facilities in the world signing virtual power purchase agreements (PPA) to offset electricity usage hundreds of miles away. Big solar…
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Rhode Island commercial solar power incentives – a 20 year paycheck from your roof
The State of Rhode Island offers a twenty year electricity purchase contract to commercial rooftop owners that install solar power. Essentially, CommercialSolarGuy will build a small power plant on your building, and National Grid will purchase all of that electricity. Payments are made through a monthly electronic deposit as National Grid sells that electricity into…
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