Commercial solar in San Diego and other Southern California cities, can help not only reduce or virtually eliminate your electricity costs, but also provides certainty moving forward. With solar offsetting a majority of your electricity bill, you can plan to have your utility overhead under control in the foreseeable future.

By helping to reduce your overhead costs associated with your utility expense, installing renewable generation provides increased cash flow to your business, freeing up capital to increase your business’s bottom line and give you an edge in an ever-competitive environment.

There are two major incentives that make solar attractive for a business. The first is a limited time 30% federal tax credit – effectively providing a 30% discount of the cost of a solar power system in the first year. The second incentive is accelerated depreciation (commonly referred to as MACRS) which provides the ability to depreciate solar over 5 years with the depreciation front loaded at the beginning of the depreciation period.

Not only will installing solar help save your organization money and improve your cash flow, but it will also prove your company’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gases and to the environment. We have worked with many clients to promote their completed projects.

With generous tax incentives, simple payback for solar projects ranges from 5-7 years for most for-profit businesses looking to buy systems outright. For companies looking to have no up-front cost, there are multiple financing options that still save you money every month while making solar affordable.

No. Our team is trained to help choose the best option that fits your needs. By answering a few questions, we can provide a financing option from our approved and vetted financing partners that fits your goals – helping you stay cash-flow positive for the life of the financing.

A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is essentially replacing your existing utility with a solar power system on your property and/or facility. With a PPA you pay only for the power generated by the system and a third party owns and maintains the facility. They take the tax credits and depreciation and pass the savings along to you in the form of lower utility rates. Terms can vary from 15-25 years.

Solar installations come with a 10-year standard installation and manufacturer’s warranty. Solar power systems, with periodic maintenance and replacement of components that make up a small percentage of the overall cost, can last 30+ years.

Typically installation warranties are 10 years, module warranties 25 years, and inverter warranties can be anywhere from 10-20 years. Those three items make up the majority of what goes into a solar power system, and also what could fail over the life of the system.

Yes and no. Systems in a dusty or dirty environment (such as locations near airports or freeways) may require periodic scheduled cleaning. In most areas, rain a couple times a year may be sufficient to clean arrays. Other than module cleaning, we recommend a periodic checkup of the system to ensure the systems are performing optimally.

System size depends upon your historic energy consumption. If we can get a copy of your last 12 months of electric bills with no redactions (account numbers, meter numbers, etc.) that is usually enough for us figure a system size.

Definitely! Switching to solar demonstrates to your community your company’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gases and protecting the environment. Solar energy is a sustainable improvement to your building that serves as a competitive differentiator to customers, shareholders and potential employees.

In this case, the solar system will disconnect from the grid so as not to back-feed in the event that workers are servicing the local utility lines.

It is possible to offset the majority, all, or even future consumption. We can help you optimize the system size to meet your financial and business goals.

No. Our solar power systems can operate independently of batteries. However, if batteries are something you’re interested in, we offer Smart Storage solutions for demand management for commercial solar in San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange County.