Commercial Solar Panel Installation

Low your electric bill at your office or commercial property.

With solar photovoltaic panels (PV panels) and solar hot water techniques, your commercial property or office building will become much more energy efficient:

Economic benefit – Balanced out and reduce current utility bills and add value to your property.

Environmental profit – Reduce your building’s carbon footprint.

Public Relations benefit – Generate goodwill by promoting renewable, sustainable and clean electricity.

Competitive benefit – Give yourself a marketing edge as financial and environmental benefits may be passed on to tenants.

Self-financed – Potential to always be self-financed through a power purchase deal.

We offer a smooth solar installation process.

At Local Pro Solar, we’ll take you step-by-step through each and every step from determining possibility of solar panel installment for office buildings or commercial buildings. Here’s a perception of how the process will go:

1. We’ll conduct a telephone appointment to determine the suitability, finding out things such as:

Does your office building have a solid southern facing roof or some other site available for installation?

How old is the roof, pitch or type of roofing? slate, floor tile, metal

Are there any potential issues with roof being shaded?  We will do a Google Earth analysis while on the telephone with you.

2. Next we will come out and do a site evaluation that includes the following:

We will take measurements including solar pathfinder analysis and readings.

We will take photographs regarding design/installation variables like location of breaker panel, etc.

We are going to conduct a more in-depth interview with you including collecting copies involving utility bills and building plans so that we can custom design the best solar panel system to meet your needs.

Once the evaluation and planning been completed it’s time to design the machine and prepare a proposal including a Purchase Power Agreement, if suitable.

If yours is a self-financed transaction with a Power Purchase Contract, we’ll work with you to make a deal to meet your investment needs. Then we will structure and execute files relating to the ownership entity that is to be a part of the proposal.

After the suggestion has help been approved, we’ll order materials and commence scheduling construction and setting up your solar panels and system.

• Deliver purchase orders to suppliers
• Submit plans for permitting installation
• Schedule installation and required inspections
• Schedule final commissioning and signoffs via county and utility firm
• Assist with filing of all records related to federal, state and local rebates and initiatives
• Assist with leasing if requested or needed

Once your system has been commissioned, you get to sit back and enjoy your double dividend returns for the next 25 years…

Should I still be connected to my utility company?

Most likely, yes. The benefit of solar systems is diminished when you go off-grid due to the price and wastefulness of batteries. Staying connected to the grid has a very good point, though. The current mandate for “net metering” makes it a requirement for the energy company to allow you to feed unused electricity that you generate back again onto the grid and your meter will run backwards when this occurs. Then when you need much more electricity than your system can be producing you will draw from the actual grid and your meter may run like normal. The electric grid effect gives you a net after the usage is compared against the production. An it ensures that you are getting total retail price for the electricity you store on the grid while your not using it.

How does a Power Purchase Agreement work?

The host site will grant the easement to the owner of the assortment, typically a separate entity created to own the system, and the individual that is hosting the site will purchase power from the method provided at a discounted rate for a set period of time, usually 10/20 years. This specific arrangement allows the host (and purchaser of the electrical power) to achieve cost savings while the owners of the array earn back their investment.

Can my personal roof handle the weight?

Your systems do add additional body weight to the load-bearing roof, but the architectural design of the racking systems distributes the weight out and typically makes additional structural support not need.

Are income tax credit applicable to Solar Panel Systems used in Industrial Building Applications?

For commercial solar electric systems, your tax credit has recently already been replaced by a direct grant from your US Government. This is beneficial to those that have a tax responsibility and to those who don’t wish to delay until preparing their tax returns.