Clean Energy Is Made Easy With Solar City
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If you’d like to go solar and need some help with financing, then I’d like to share some information on Solar City with you. Solar City is an American provider of energy services to homeowners, businesses, and government/non-profit organizations. There have already been over 68,000 homeowners signing up with Solar City, and thousands are enjoying the benefits of clean and more affordable energy from this company. As long as you have a good roof, the solar installation is free and Solar City monitors the solar power systems to ensure that everything is running smoothly and covers maintenance, repairs and insurance at no added cost in the rare event problems arise.
Among its primary services, the company designs, finances and installs solar energy systems, performs energy efficiency audits and retrofits and builds charging stations for electric vehicles. The company had more than 2,500 employees as of December 2012. SolarCity has grown in recent years to meet the rapidly growing installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the United States. The overall US market has grown from 440 MW of “solar panels installed in 2009 to 3,300 megawatts in 2012, and it is expected to grow to 4,300 megawatts” in 2013. Here is a video to demonstrate how clean energy is made easy with Solar City, below:
SolarCity was founded in July 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive, based on a suggestion for a solar company concept from Elon Musk. SolarCity has been the leading provider of residential solar power in California since 2007, its first full year of operation, according to the database kept by the California Solar Initiative and was the number one residential solar installer in the U.S. in 2011, according to Greentech Media Research. In 2013, Solar Power World magazine listed SolarCity as the No. 2 overall solar installation company in the U.S.
SolarCity is headquartered in San Mateo, California, but the company uses a distributed service model in which it provides installation from local operations centers. SolarCity has additional locations in:
- Berkeley, Petaluma, Morgan Hill, Foster City, San Luis Obispo, Culver City (Los Angeles), Santa Ana (Orange County), Pomona, Fresno, Stockton, Sacramento, Bakersfield, Lancaster and San Diego, California
- Phoenix (multiple locations), Tucson and Prescott Valley, Arizona
- Denver and Parker, Colorado
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Mililani, Hawaii
- Silver Spring and Jessup, Maryland
- Marlborough, Massachusetts
- Cranbury, New Jersey
- Albany, New York
- Portland, Oregon
- Dallas, Texas
- Broomall, Pennsylvania
- Washington, DC
In 2008, SolarCity introduced a new solar lease option for homeowners that significantly reduces or eliminates the upfront cost of installing solar power. SolarCity’s solar lease can allow some homeowners to pay less each month by adopting solar power than they previously paid for electricity from the utility company.
SolarCity began more actively providing solar services to business, government, and non-profit customers in 2008. In May 2008, the company completed what was, at the time, the largest commercial solar installation in San Jose on the North Campus of eBay. That July, SolarCity completed what was then the largest commercial solar installation in San Francisco, for British Motors, consisting of 1,606 solar photovoltaic panels. SolarCity introduced new financing options for businesses in 2009 and has built multiple solar projects for other large organizations including Walmart, Intel, and the U.S. military. On March 21, 2013 SolarCity announced that it would open a new location in Nevada in cooperation with state government.
SolarCity entered the electric car charging business by buying the SolSource Energy business of Clean Fuel Connections, Inc., which was reported to be finalized in 2009 and has also announced a partnership with Rabobank to make electric car charging available for free to owners of Tesla Motors‘ vehicles traveling on U.S. Route 101 in California between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Other cars that can make use of the same charging technology are welcome. In 2011, the company announced it would install electric car chargers that could charge a wide range of EVs in all of its service territories.
In 2010, SolarCity acquired Building Solutions, a software-enabled home energy audit firm, and began to offer energy efficiency evaluations and upgrades such as air and duct sealing, efficient heating/cooling and lighting to its list of services. SolarCity worked with Admiral’s Bank of Boston in March 2012 to make a new loan available to finance energy efficiency improvements and expanded its energy efficiency services to the east coast.
SolarStrong is SolarCity’s five-year plan to build more than $1 billion in solar photovoltaic projects for privatized military housing communities across the United States, announced in late 2011. SolarCity plans to work with the country’s leading privatized military housing developers to install, own and operate rooftop solar installations and provide solar electricity at a lower cost than utility power. SolarStrong is ultimately expected to create up to 300 megawatts of solar generation capacity that could provide power to as many as 120,000 military housing units, which would make it the largest residential photovoltaic project in American history if completed. In November 2011, SolarCity and Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced that they have agreed to terms on initial debt financing for SolarStrong.
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