Southern California Edison (SCE) established new Time-Of-Use (TOU) plans in March of 2019 to help manage energy costs. These new TOU plans affect all Southern California residents regardless of whether or not they own solar panels. Southern California homeowners are...
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Are you interested in getting rooftop solar, but you’re not sure where to start, or you’re overwhelmed by the choices, or it seems too expensive? We can help. We are a small group of neighbors in University Hills (that’s the neighborhood adjacent to UC Irvine). Last...
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Residential Solar Installation Time-to-Completion You may have considered having solar panels installed on your house, having heard that they help you save money on electric bills. During your consideration, you might have wondered how much time would elapse during...
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It might be mysterious to you what’s going to happen on the first day of your solar installation. Here’s a preview showing three parts of the installation process. Inverter Location Inverters are the tools that convert alternating current (AC) energy to direct current...
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Bird Nesting Can Make Your Solar Panels Less Productive Birds, pigeons in this case, scatter as they look for the right place to build a home. Sometimes, that place turns out to be to be among your hospitable solar panels. The problem of pigeons invading solar panels...
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Protect Your SolarEdge Inverters from the Sun and Rain By Using a Cover We usually install SolarEdge inverters in the garage of a residence, but sometimes we are not able to because the garage is full or isn’t next to the Main Service Panel. In this case, Aikyum Solar...
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