CALSSA and allies have announced a goal of collecting 100,000 public comments in 30 days to deliver to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and Governor Newsom before the upcoming Net Metering (NEM-3) decision in December. The CPUC will be reconsidering the credit rooftop solar consumers receive for the excess energy they produce, and CALSSA…
Solar contractors have many options when it comes to business software specific to the industry. The most comprehensive platforms try to integrate every step of the solar sales-to-installation process in one. Here are the popular choices on the market that cover most or all of the needs of solar contractors. Aurora Solar Aurora Solar’s bread…
Pearl Certification, a national provider of third-party certification of high-performing homes, launched the Equity Calculator today to help contractors better demonstrate the value solar installations can add to a home. The Pearl Equity Calculator is the industry’s first tool to calculate discounted cash flow using certified contractor data, NREL software to calculate solar production numbers,…
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