Standard Solar

It would be nice if before the installation I knew the Critical Loads panel had an 80 AMP limit and also if I knew the maximum number of fuses and what type (15 or 20 AMP) fuses were in that panel. This would have helped in planning sooner. It still worked out well though. The critical loads panel had one 20-amp fuse and the rest were 15 amp.

Standard Solar`s crew were terrific - smart, polite, neat, etc. A sub-contractor for electrical hook up was a disaster and I believe no longer being used by Standard. If they made cute tee shirts for women, I would be happy to advertise.

The areas that needed improvement are; 1) Need to get a systems person out before the job starts 2) need to be honest with the schedule The were off by 4 months 3) Need a full time procurement person. The team is great and they worked around my issues. The product is perfect and the install was top notch. I wanted to get the basic home systems off the grid... Knowing that the cost is way too high to make the house totally renewable, we did as much as we could afford.

we love the system! The local solar home tour in 2007 and solar decatholon helped decide to go ahead with our project and identify potential contractors. A program on PBS on using solar energy helped us realize that many people with more modest incomes were already doing it. This helped us jump in and stop waiting!