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Intelligently manage distributed solar fleets with an online system-of-record

Jess Sudo | Dec 18, 2015

Administrating an interconnection or incentive program can be challenging, especially when it comes to keeping track of all the data. With multiple systems-of-record, program administrators can be forced to search through emails, paper documents, document management...

Three reasons it’s time for utilities to think seriously about distributed solar interconnection

Scott Tewel | Oct 9, 2014

When home and business owners decide to go solar, they embark on an adventure that will require navigation of a multi-step process that includes soliciting and evaluating proposals, determining financing, and applying for permits, incentives and interconnection....

PowerClerk auto-document generation and electronic signature features streamline incentive and interconnection processing

Scott Tewel | Jun 5, 2014

Taking paper intensive processes online can dramatically simplify what formerly would have been manual, time-consuming administrative tasks. For the solar industry, this can help reduce soft costs, which today account for more than 60 percent of the cost of installing...

CSI program wind-down doesn’t mean the end of solar in California

Scott Tewel | Dec 16, 2013

As the California Solar Initiative General Market program—the largest PV incentive program in the U.S.—winds down, an interesting solar landscape is emerging in California. A number of incentive programs large and small continue to support solar adoption in the state,...

Three ways automation can smash solar interconnection costs

Scott Tewel | Oct 3, 2013

It’s no secret that although solar hardware costs have been steadily decreasing, solar soft costs— including permitting, interconnection, customer acquisition and installation labor—have remained steady. In fact, according to studies by the National Renewable Energy...

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