Commercial solar EPC since 2001 · Disabled veteran-owned · 7.8+ MW installed
Insights
Battery Storage
A battery only pays for itself if your utility bill is paying for something a battery can change. Here is how to read your own tariff for demand charges, ratchets and time-of-use pricing before anyone quotes you a system.
Chris Sandifer · 7 min read
Costs
An honest breakdown of commercial solar cost per kW in Georgia: why price per watt falls with system size, what the line items actually are, which four variables swing a quote, and how to compare two proposals that look different.
Doug Baird · 7 min read
Industry
Three installed poultry systems — 210 kW on six breeder houses, 450 kW on fourteen broiler houses, 410 kW on sixteen — and what the differences between them tell you about sizing, cost and payback on your own farm.
Doug Baird · 6 min read
Industry
Dealerships have an unusually good load profile for solar: the building draws hardest exactly when the sun is up. Here is what that does to payback, where the roof runs out, and why lot lighting and DC fast charging need a different answer.
Doug Baird · 6 min read
Incentives
The investment tax credit, Section 179 and bonus depreciation are three different mechanisms, not one. Here is the order they apply in, why the credit shrinks your depreciable basis, and a fully illustrative walkthrough of a $500,000 project.
Doug Baird · 7 min read
Incentives
What a REAP grant application for solar actually involves, in order: rural eligibility, the energy assessment or audit, the technical report, SAM registration, matching funds, the environmental review, scoring and reimbursement.
Doug Baird · 7 min read
Send us twelve months of utility bills and we will come back with a system size, a cost, the incentives you qualify for and a payback range — at no charge.
