How to Extend the Lifespan of Your Solar Batteries
Learn how to extend the lifespan of your lead-acid or lithium solar batteries by adjusting depth of discharge, optimizing the operating environment, ensuring proper dimensioning of your system, and more.
How to Use a Kill A Watt to Estimate Your Solar Needs
Learn how to collect power usage data with a Kill A Watt to dimension your off-grid solar solution.
Client Success Story: A Hands-On Experience to Guide Off-Grid Solar Decisions
See how a hands-on process empowered a client with the knowledge and confidence to grow his off-grid solar solution and build resiliency against outages.
Our Secret Sauce to Lowering Off-Grid Solar System Costs
See the 3 “against the grain” things we do to help our clients lower the cost of an off-grid solar solution.
4 Things That Drive Up Off-Grid Solar Costs (and How To Lower Yours)
Learn the 4 “usual suspects” driving up the cost of an off-grid solar system and how to reduce their impacts with reasonable adjustments.
Can the Chinese Hack Into My Solar System?
Cybersecurity for critical infrastructure in a nutshell: Should you be worried it you’re on grid-tied solar? Should you be worried if you have off-grid solar? What is your inverter doing behind your back?
Client Success Story: A Journey to Energy Independence
See how we help this client take a phased approach to build her off-grid solar system and achieve energy independence.
Why Grid-Tied Solar Installations Isn’t Your Best Bet
Typical grid-tied solar installations can’t generate power during outages and can’t provide the independent resiliency for our rural community.
Client Success Story: Lower SCE Bills and Add Resiliency Against Outages
See how our off-grid solar solution helps this long-time Caliente resident lower SCE bills and become more resilient against power outages.
Client Success Story: Modernizing a 15-Year-Old Solar System
See how we helped this client modernize her off-grid solar equipment and batteries to add capacity and reliability to the system.
The Nuances of Designing an Off-Grid Solar Solution that Lasts
Our desert/mountain environment is unforgiving. See how we ensure our Caliente clients’ off-grid solar solutions withstand the test of time.
Client Success Story: Upgrade to Lithium Battery Without Tossing Out the Lead-Acid Ones
See how we helped a client transition from old and under-performing lead-acid batteries to modern, high-endurance lithium iron phosphate chemistry without the high cost, complexity, and wastage.
Why “Can You Repair My Solar Equipment?” May Be the Wrong Question
Yes, we can almost always repair a piece of equipment. But should you? How we answer the “to repair or to replace” question by evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Client Success Story: Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue
A phased approach to bring a defunct off-grid solar system back to life — saving $10k in equipment and setting it up for future expansion.
Do You Have a “Phantom Drain” in Your Electrical Circuit?
If your off-grid solar system struggles to meet your power needs even if you believe you should have enough capacity, or if you’re getting eye-watering SCE bills without much to show for it… this could be the culprit.
The False Economy of Cheap Lithium Batteries
3 reasons why cheap lithium batteries cost you more in the long-run.
Lithium vs. Lead-Acid Batteries: A Dollar per kWh per Year Cost Comparison
Learn the key factors affecting the actual cost of batteries. See a. head-to-head dollar per kWh per year comparison of lead-acid vs. LFP to see which one is a better deal. (There’s a clear winner!)
A Solar Upgrade to Solve the Winter Blues
How we helped a client boost solar production to meet winter needs in just a week while setting the stage for her future plans.
Running Monster Power Tools on Off-Grid Solar? Here are the Fine Prints (and how we solve it)
To dimension an off-grid solar solution accurately, you must address your surge power requirements to get the power output you need without paying for the capacity you don’t use.
Why is My Off-Grid Inverter Beeping?
Understand what causes an off-grid solar inverter to beep. Learn how to address the alarm quickly and diagnose the issue to implement a long-term solution.