The kinds of people who will likely be first adopters are the eco frugal who now have bills so tiny that solar estimators pass them by ($50-$80 ish).

But, add in an EV (about like adding in a pool pump) and now they use enough electricity to warrant getting a residential PPA (Solar City, SunRun, Sungevity) to switch to clean power for $0 down and pay as you go – and save bigtime over the long haul.

So adding EVs will increase the adoption of solar, by increasing the differential between a solar PPA and staying with the utility.

Someone with a $500 bill now will pay over $400,000 over 25 years if they do nothing and stay with our utility PG&E. Or they can go solar for $40,000 and save $300,000 (bank loan) or do a PPA and switch for $0 and still save between $100,000 and $200,000.

The higher the bill now, the more reason to go solar.

Interesting, isn’t that a huge disincentive to buying electric cars? The electric companies are going to be penalizing you by charging you an exponential amount more for the electricity…

Plus fund wind and solar thermal (most pool owners need both) and you have a great business model.

The only major obstacle to widespread rapid adoption of residential solar energy systems are the high upfront cost to the end user and the complete lack of traditional bank financing programs.

Solar Acceptance has designed and developed the very first consumer-financing model that overcomes this obstacle. A multi-million dollar BETA trial is now underway.

Once this begins to scale the industry will see that it is not about panel manufacturers, integrators, or leasing companies. It is about enabling the consumer to capture the true economic benefits of lower energy costs from a solar system they can finance-to-own at a reasonable rate.