Roof-integrated solar solution provider GAF Energy is expanding the level of solar services available to their roofing partners, paving the way for GAF Energy roofing partners to become individual solar companies.
GAF Energy services allow the company’s local roofer partners to access solar-specific expertise and staffing when installing a GAF Energy roof-integrated solar system. Services include — but are not limited to — electrical installation, system design, proposal generation, project permitting, project coordination, and installation training for solar roofing jobs. GAF Energy services allow roofing companies to enter the residential solar market with the backing, experience, and expertise of one of the industry’s leading solar roofing companies.
“Homeowners across the country are more and more interested in going solar. With GAF Energy services, roofing contractors can do what they do best — provide a great roofing product and installation to their customer — while our team takes care of the solar design, permitting, and electrical work,” said Martin Debono, President of GAF Energy. “With GAF Energy services, roofers can readily become solar companies.”
GAF Energy empowers roofing contractors across the U.S. to sell and install solar technology. The GAF Energy solar system couples affordable solar technology with fast, reliable installation. Designed to provide a good-looking, low-profile alternative to standard rack-mounted solar panels, GAF Energy solar integrates Solaria solar modules directly with the roofing system and requires no penetration of the roofing membrane.
Roofing contractors interested in installing GAF Energy products can find out more at: gaf.energy/roofers/
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I start thinking back to the utility power wars around 1880. Edison vs Westinghouse. D.C. vs A.C.. As solar PV has become a relatively cheap D.C. generation resource now, perhaps it’s time to be (backwards) for homes wired to use the old dynamo 120-220VDC of Edison’s design.
If you actually look at what’s happening in the appliance industry, a lot of Energy Star devices are actually rectifying the 120 to 240VAC into a D.C. buss then using electronics switching technology to control power flow and device efficiencies. Almost every electronics device is some kind of wall transformer step down and rectified to a D.C. voltage, often 12, 24VDC to power the devices power supply board. A nice big 25kWp solar PV array, a 250VDC LiFePO4 battery pack and all the appliances would have the ‘power’ controls in the device itself. The industry is actually doing it now, the way its done would need a standard that will keep voltage up, so wire size in homes now could be used in an all D.C. household.
““With GAF Energy services, roofers can readily become solar companies.””
Simplify, simplify, simplify.