Watch the install process here! https://fb.watch/KgXMzt2eO3/ What we took out The original setup worked the way solar-plus-storage worked a few years ago: an inverter from one part of the catalog, a battery cabinet from another, and the hardware to make them talk to each other filling the gap. Nothing was wrong with it. That [...]
Mary's house sits in the pines. Beautiful place to live. Also the kind of place where the power goes out because a tree somewhere upslope had a bad day, and nobody can tell you when it's coming back. She wanted a generator that handles the whole house, not just a few circuits. Elio and Trent [...]
There's a short window on every new house where you can see everything. The framing (the wooden skeleton of the house) is up, the roof is on, and the walls are still wide open. Every wire, pipe, and duct is right there in plain sight. Then the insulation and drywall go in, and that's [...]
If you drive past a solar job at the end of the day, you see panels on a roof. That's about ten percent of the work. The other ninety percent is the stuff nobody photographs — sealing the roof, mounting the rails, running the pipe, wiring it all together, and hanging the batteries. That's where [...]
When a solar system quits, the first thing a homeowner looks at is the roof. That's where the panels are, so that's where the problem must be. It usually isn't. Bryan called us because his Enphase system had stopped generating. Production was inconsistent and then it went to zero. The panels were fine. So [...]
Most people buy a portable generator right after an outage. The power goes out for three days, the food in the fridge goes bad, and the next week there's a generator in the garage. Then the following winter, the power goes out again and they're running extension cords through a window to keep one [...]
It's one of the most common questions we hear from our clients at the start of a solar project: How many solar panels do I need? We've got a two-part answer to help you decide. The answer to this question is largely determined by two things: how much electricity you use and how much electricity [...]
At Urban Design Solar, we take pride in staying on the cutting edge of all things solar! And we want to keep our customers informed, too. Here's our roundup of solar news for this week! 'Major' solar project gets the green light in Northern Ireland Solar is becoming a worldwide energy source, and we couldn't [...]
There’s one thing that always tends to be a struggle in all areas of technology, and that’s durability. We typically need to replace our phones, laptops, and sometimes even cars after just a few years. But this isn’t the case with solar panels. When you invest in solar, you invest in technology you can rely [...]
The use of electric vehicles (EVs) is steadily rising in the US. With companies like Tesla taking the lead in EV development, and with EV charging stations sprouting up across the country, more and more Americans are opting to buy electric cars. But for many of us, the idea of an electric car seems to [...]