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Solar Amid Covid-19

April 11, 2021

 A note to Renewable Solar customers.

These are unprecedented times, but your safety and the safety of our Renewable Solar team is our foremost concern. With that said, we feel that the safety of your home and business is more important than ever, and our team is ready to fill your solar needs as always.


We understand that your home is your greatest asset and we want to protect that asset by delivering quality workmanship in a way compliant to the COVID-19 guidelines as recommended by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Federal Government and the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Renewable Solar is also adding extra measures for the protection of our customers and our team. 


We are offering estimates using virtual delivery to comply with social distancing. – a minimum 6 foot distance will be maintained from all customers and residents.


We are instituting additional cleaning and sanitizing procedures for all common areas in our workplace, company vehicles, tools and equipment.


Employees who feel unwell are instructed to stay home and seek medical advice. Our Renewable Solar team is healthy, but we are using extreme caution.


We have implemented training on communication methods at every location to keep every employee informed and current on the latest guidance, as we navigate this crisis and the global effort to curb the virus’ spread.


We will continue to monitor CDC and government updates on workplace health guidelines and closings.


Thank you for your patience during this time, as we all navigate this situation together.

Before and After Electrical Bill

By Randy Golla • September 4, 2021
So here is the first electrical bill from a customer that we did a grid tied solar installation on. It's a smaller system 5.89kW on a basic rambler home in Minnetonka MN. They have 19, 310 watt solar panels with APSystems QS1 micro inverters. This client did receive the federal tax credit on this installation and also has the Excel Solar Rewards Production Based Incentive applied. With the Solar Rewards incentive from Xcel they are receiving a .07 cent per kWh credit on their Xcel Energy bill for every kWh their system is producing. Take a look at the monthly usage in KWH on their electrical bill. They had Xcel install their meters allowing us to go live on the 6th of August so they had a week of Xcel grid use in August then the rest of the month they have been running with their solar array in full operation. As you can see there was a major drop in the amount of electricity used from Xcel. We are fully expecting to see this customer see the annual energy production of their PV array to be at least equal to their usage for the year probably a little bit more. What does that mean to the bottom dollar? July bill was $132 August was $23 The proof is in the production!

What Does It Cost?

April 11, 2021
How much? That is what it comes down to with most things right? What is the overall cost and what do I save when I install a solar energy system. Well that is something we can tell you!

Sun on South East West Slopes

April 11, 2021
We hear this all the time. A potential customer walks up to our booth at a show or visits our crew at an install and says those dreaded words, "I don't have a south facing roof so I can't do solar." STOP RIGHT THERE. Yes you can! Here is an example of a solar installation with very little south facing roof coverage. The cool part of this solar install is that it makes much more than the household uses each day. We filled up what we could on the south slope then made up the difference on the other East and West slopes.
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