by Brian Roufa | Nov 16, 2022 | Commercial Solar Economics, Roof Health
How Solar Helps Reduce Grid Instability When we flick on the lights in a room, few of us stop to consider exactly how far that electricity had to travel from its point of origin to reach our wires and outlets. The truth is that the vast majority of our nation’s power...
by Brian Clausen | Oct 31, 2022 | California Commercial Solar, Commercial Solar Economics, Finance, Incentives and Policy
What Is the IRA? The United States Government passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August of 2022 in an effort to boost the economy. Supporting energy-saving investments is one of the major tenets of the IRA, and this has many implications for commercial solar...
by Brian Roufa | Oct 21, 2022 | Commercial Solar Economics, Solar Technology
We often get asked about how we manage solar panels after they are installed and live. As a practical matter, solar panels have no moving parts and are built to sit in the hot sun for decades. So, really, what kind of maintenance is involved? There are no air filters...
by Brian Clausen | Oct 13, 2022 | Commercial Solar Economics, Finance
As a commercial property owner, you have a wide range of ways to ensure a successful property. Maybe you’re all about vacancy reductions. Or maybe you’re striving to retain the tenants you already have. Perhaps your tenant mix is in a good place and you’re...
by Brian Clausen | Oct 7, 2022 | Commercial Solar Economics, Finance
There’s something comforting about the permanent-yet-impermanent quality of a multi-tenant commercial property. Hosting everything from bubble tea shops and chiropractors to franchise restaurants and dog groomers, these rotating carousels of businesses are a staple in...
by Brian Clausen | Oct 3, 2022 | Commercial Solar Economics
Mitigating climate change is a race against time, requiring “rapid, far reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” according to the IPCC, who says we need to halve global emissions by 2030. But Tom Dinwoodie of Epic Institute believes that this...
