We kick-started 21st century solar contracting here.
We continue to break ground and lead the field.
We don't just sell product, we provide solutions.
No surprises; we've been in construction for 40 years.
We stay abreast of best practices, codes, products.
We design to fit your site or building and budget.
We use real data to predict and monitor performance.
Our policy work helped establish valuable incentives.
We live it! We have 10 kW of solar on our HQ.
Let's Be Adults...
...and face the fact that the U.S. economy is running on empty, careening with increasing frequency from one Ponzi scheme to another; the stock market, the derivatives market, the real estate market, the commodities markets, and so on. This is not really sustainable. Anyone who was in business in the early 1970's as I was (Jeremy speaking here), when gasoline was 26 cents/gallon, remembers how the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 drove an inflationary spiral that precipitated the devaluation of our currency and the offshore flight of manufacturing that continues to this day. Now that we have the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the once-abundant and cheap oil resource that built our economy peaked in 1970, with natural gas following soon after, and yet we have continued to run our economy on that same basis, as though we are still inexpensively producing all the energy that drives it. Reality is that we are buying that energy, now fully one third of what we use, and it is costing us monetarily and environmentally. Happily, there is a solution at hand.
This Is Where You Come In...
Homes use 22% of all U.S. energy, and passenger cars use another 11%. That means that homeowners with a car can directly effect their portion of one third of our energy consumption by reducing it and cleaning it up. Each day in Seattle, on average, enough raw solar energy falls on a typical residential 40 x 100 foot lot to power 50 homes. Today's solar energy technology allows us to tap into this supply and, without harming the environment, take as much as we are able to collect. Combine this with a program to reduce home energy consumption and electrify transportation and you have a very powerful antidote to our problems that needs no other catalyst than you, hence our slogan, 'You Make the Difference'.
We're Here to Help...
As with other technologies, solar energy technology has improved considerably in the last three decades and now it is becoming a permanent part of our lives. In the year 2010, as never before, it is up to us to change our energy future for the better. YOU can help it pivot toward sustainability AND stabilize your own energy costs at the same time by becoming a solar energy producer! We invite you to look at the information on this website and then contact us for further evaluation of the possibilities. The power to change things really does reside in you and I, my friend.
