Solar Wolf Energy Blog

Let's Take a Minute To Celebrate Our Fallen Veterans!

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This weekend is a very special weekend for Americans. It is the time we take stock in our liberties and freedoms and let the weight of the costs of those sink in. Memorial day is not to thank a vet, it is not the time to argue about current wars or politics. It is a time to reflect of a time where men and women sacrificed the most one can sacrifice for their fellow Americans.

While some see it as a extra day off, or a long weekend we at Solar...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki

Solar Subsides Pale In Numbers From The Oil Subsides, Yet Solar Is The Bad Guy?

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It's true, the federal ITC will start to go away in 2020. The last full year to capture this will be in 2019.

The way it is structured it will not be renewed or extended. Yet so many people think solar is bad or is "Ripping off the tax payer's" This is an interesting statement. It's interesting because the ones that usually say it either can't afford to purchase or their homes don't qualify for a lease. "Solar shouldn't have a government...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki

Product Spotlight - LG Chem RESU Home Battery Energy Storage

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LG is a leader in the home electronics industry and manufactures some of the most popular solar panels. Outside of making solar panels, LG's battery subsidiary, LG Chem, produces one of the most popular batteries in the U.S. market: the LG Chem RESU 10H battery.LG chem is ranked as one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery manufacturers with 29,000 employees and manufacturing facilities in South Korea, China and the US. The company supplies ...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

The Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) Is Dropping Soon!

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The solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is one of the most important federal policy mechanisms to support the growth of solar energy in the United States. Since the ITC was enacted in 2006, the U.S. solar industry has grown by more than 10,000% - creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and investing billions of dollars in the U.S. economy in the process.Currently, the ITC is a 26 percent tax credit for solar systems on residential and...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

Solar From 35,000 Feet

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It never ceases to amaze me as I am fortunate enough to view our great country from the air with the amount of solar we have installed both as a company nationwide but also as an industry.

What is even more troubling is the amount of solar that is not installed but no doubt should be. Some locations and entire states where there is minimal or almost none at all. This as both a parent of children and as a founder and financier of solar projects /...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki

How Long Can The Good Times Last In MA For Solar?

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The federal & state ITC combined are great. Add in the SRECs and it is almost too good. Pricing is still at levels where everyone (Suppliers, electricians, installers, retailers, and banks) can still make money without having to charge the consumer to much. When you figure the savings from National Grid / Eversource coupled with the SRECs, you can pay off your system in less than 4 years. That is stellar to say the least. Other states are nearly ...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki

Solar Industry, Let's Cut The Crap

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As an individual immersed in solar I often venture over to the informed folks over at Greentechmedia.com each day to stay abreast. True to form in this and like any other industry there are always foreclosures and bankruptcies. Lately there seems to be a common thread with solar companies in the recent weeks and it is time someone pull out the BS meter and let everyone know its way past pegged. This ration of "We blame the industry we couldn't...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki

The Management Behind A Solar Company

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Who are you purchasing your solar service and equipment from?

It goes beyond the sales person you are dealing with. Perhaps you haven't noticed the excessively high turn over rate in this industry. Well, I can assure you it is a problem. Why? A large reason is because there are owners and management that are just in this industry because there is a flooding of demand for it. They come and go and will be on the train to something else when it pops ...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki