EnergySage is an online solar power platform that is designed to help consumers learn more about solar and get estimates for solar power systems. CEO Vikram Aggarwal generously answered some questions this week for this interview with CleanTechnica. 1. How does EnergySage help increase solar adoption rates 2 to 3 … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. The national office supply chain Staples has partnered with a solar power shopping website to provide discounts on solar power to their customers. They are giving e-gift cards with values ranging from $125 to $2,500 to customers that install solar systems purchased through the partner, … [continued]
Here are some more great solar stories from around the interwebs, to complement our own solar stories: For Consumers 1. Going Solar Made Easier By Online Shopping Site and Staples Gift Cards 2. New Financing Models to Drive Demand for Commercial Solar 3. Crowdfunding Solar Power for the World’s Poorest People 4. This Social … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport It will soon be a month since Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) announced their partnership with EnergySage. Their first project was finding an installer to put solar panels on the new roof of Metro South Chamber of Commerce, in Brockton Massachusetts. The first … [continued]
The competitiveness of solar leasing vs a $0-down solar loan is a question that has come up many times in my mind. It’s also a topic that comes up a lot in the comments on CleanTechnica. Using EnergySage’s cool new “Instant Solar Estimate” tool, I decided to run through comparative … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. EnergySage this week launched a new “Instant Solar Estimate” tool. It’s wicked awesome! Definitely the coolest I’ve, and also the quickest. Of course, the tool doesn’t require much personal information, which might sometimes result in a less-than-perfect estimate. Nonetheless, the EnergySage Instant Solar Estimate (ISE) … [continued]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and many others have identified the “soft costs” of solar as the biggest cost barriers that need to be knocked down in order to unleash a true solar revolution in the US. As I’ve noted previously, the soft costs of solar are enormously larger … [continued]
The cost of solar energy has already plunged a whopping 70 percent in just three years, and it is set to dive right off the charts. The Department of Energy has just announced a new round of $60 million in grants from the innovative solar funding program that has been … [continued]
There are a number of sites these days that will help you find a solar installer. It’s great to see that area of the industry getting plugged by more and more companies. But I’m not sure if any compare with the comparison solar shopping system offered by EnergySage. I recently … [continued]
This article was originally published on Solar Love. In February, I reported on EnergySage’s launch of the “Expedia of solar power,” a comparison shopping site aimed at getting customers multiple quotes for a solar power system on their homes or businesses. At the time, I wrote that 1BOG (with which … [continued]
