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:
First US commercial offshore wind, 630 GW/year of solar, & more! #45
Today from the Clean Power Hour, we discuss the first commercial offshore wind plant for the United States, a whole bunch of stuff on space, the International Energy Agency suddenly coming out HUGE for wind+solar, and more! This excessive commentary is brought to you by Tim Montague and yours truly – the CommercialSolarGuy – John Fitzgerald…
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Low emission electricity down as solar up 14%
The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released April’s Electric Power Monthly, which showed that low emission electricity production declined despite a solar production increase of 14%, and despite newly installed capacity being 99% clean. The report provides data through the end of February 2021, and notes that in that month, photovoltaic…
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Meyer Burger solar panel pricing, 1st permanent Chinese space station, & more! #44
Today from the Clean Power Hour, we discuss the Meyer Burger solar panel pricing, refreshing versus recyling lithium ion batteries, the new Chinese space station, and more! This excessive commentary is brought to you by Tim Montague and yours truly – the CommercialSolarGuy – John Fitzgerald Weaver. First, here’s the podcast – now on to the…
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Pennsylvania Energy storage returns up to 841%
Solar power and energy storage are coming to Pennsylvania in a massive way. As of February 2021, the PJM transmission interconnection queue showed 64 solar-plus-storage projects across 26 Pennsylvania counties, totaling over 2.3 GW/~9.2 GWh. However, in its current form, the local electricity market’s structure will not support the economics of energy storage. A new…
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