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Clean Solar is the Bay Area's top-rated residential & commercial solar installation company.
You may have noticed that your car and garbage bins are tinted brown from the wildfire ashes, that same layer of debris can be located on your panels and is likely impacting your solar production. If you are experiencing lower than expected production from your solar system, this is likely due to the layers of ash on your solar panels. Since solar panels do get hot during the day, the best time to clean your panels is during the early morning or late evening. With wildfire season still upon us, plan on cleaning/rinsing your panels regularly so the panels continue to stay clean from any smoke and ash that may cover the Bay Area.
The front page feature, written by Louis Hansen, highlights how Clean Solar’s Co-Founder and CEO, Randy Zechman, helped his business persevere through the coronavirus lockdown. Randy Zechman figured he had enough cash to keep his small San Jose construction company open for maybe a couple of months into a coronavirus lockdown. Solar panel installers and roofers couldn’t work, the company couldn’t make money, and it certainly couldn’t pay several hundred thousand dollars in monthly overhead expenses. He called Salesforce, the $150 billion enterprise software company that serves many of the world’s largest corporations — and also Clean Solar.
5 small residential program (battery sizes less than 10 kW) was replenished on January 10th and has been subscribed to customers who were on the waitlist. The small residential program will implement a Step 6 ($0.20/Wh) and Step 7 ($0.15/Wh), which are scheduled to start in April 2020. Clean Solar will continue to update you on the SGIP Rebate as we are being updated by our partners on energy storage. You could save $1000s on your battery investment by combining the Federal Tax Credit (ITC) and the SGIP rebate.
, there is a step 5 waitlist available for 1-2 battery projects. For PG&E customers, PG&E has requested the CPUC to reappropriate the large battery program funds to waitlisted and new step 5 small residential projects. For one Tesla Powerwall 2, step 5 funding is roughly $3,000 per battery. As of December 2019, there is allocation available at step 2 and for a Tesla Powerwall 2, the estimated savings is around $5000 per battery.