Five steps your business can take to make the switch to solar

Going solar at work doesn’t have to be expensive or difficult

Does your company have sustainability goals? Are you interested in reducing your energy costs? Black & Veatch and Solarhood have identified five easy steps for companies that would like to go green and cut operation costs.

1. Assess your options from both technical and economic standpoints.

One key question to ask yourself early on is, “How would I like to deploy these projects and purchase the renewable power?”

If you own your company’s building(s), installing solar on your roof is a great option.

However, if you don’t own your buildings, or you don’t have enough real estate to pack in the amount of solar that you need to go 100% renewable, you still have some options. You can explore Power Purchase Agreements with energy providers, or even purchase Renewable Energy Credits to help you meet your renewable goals.

You’ll also want to consider what technologies you would like to use— like solar panels, inverters, or even what battery storage technology you may want to use.

2. Screen your locations and identify a good pilot site.

This is where Solarhood and Black & Veatch comes in. We’ll use some high-tech satellite wizardry to analyze your job sites for solar potential and return on investment.

If for some reason your roof isn’t optimal for solar, then alternative renewable options like offsite solutions (PPA or RECS) or battery storage can be used to help you maximize your renewable energy usage.

3. Pilot your approach at a site.

Pick a good site that is relatively easy to deploy and learn from. Solarhood will help you find a reliable partner that can help you deploy this project and help you learn about what it is like to build one of these projects. It is actually pretty easy to put solar and storage at a location.

4. After assessing savings at your pilot site, we’ll help you create a plan to deploy at all locations.

After validating the savings on your pilot site, you will want to create a plan to deploy to all your locations. Let us know and we’ll help you scale. During this phase, you’ll be looking to validate the potential savings and technical execution approach.

5. Scale, scale, scale!

Depending on the number of locations, you may want to do this by state and/or regionally. There is no exact science here, but you want to begin exploring a programmatic partner (we can help you with that!) to help you manage the rollout, and find good execution partners in each location or region.

If you’d like to get started on going solar, visit Solarhood.com/business today.