Solar Equipment that we use

General Specification Sheets

REC 235 PE US Black – Why do we like them?

Superior power production (outperformed most major manufacturers in independent testing, including Sharp, Kyocera, Schott, Solarworld, Evergreen, BP Solar, First Solar, and all participating Chinese manufactures)
Truly vertically integrated: from mining silica sand to final assembly of the PV modules
Pleasant, uniform appearance, in many cases a black frame
Aggressive price point, a great value for the money
Very high quality, Production facilities:

Solar Inverters

Enphase Energy M-215
Enphase M-215 Microinverters advantages and why do we like them:

A 25 year warranty (SMA, PV Powered, and Fronius offer a 10 year warranty)
Reliable (see details)
Advanced module level monitoring (see our own installation here)
Free monitoring for life – no subscription/renewal fees
Higher system efficiency – no long direct current (DC) runs
Safer operation – no high voltage DC runs
Easy to mount on different roof surfaces without mismatch loss
System can be any number of panels, no drawbacks of the string sizing
In the rear situation if one panel fails, others will still producing (no “Christmas-light” effect)
Over 500,000 units on the ground
Manufactured by a 42 year old company Flextronics, which has over 30 facilities worldwide, whose customers include Cisco Systems, Inc., Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, Western Digital, and Oracle

Mounting Structures

Unirac Solar Mount and Unirac Large Array Solutions
Unirac mounting structure advantages and why do we like it:

Great reputation, with 90% of supply chain in the United States, and little in Canada, Europe, and Asia.
More than 100,000 installations representing more than 700 MW of power
Follows IBC / ASCE environmental load combinations to determine greatest loads a system will see
Owns a lab and a wind tunnel and conducts an extensive component strength and capacity testing
Flush roof mounted, flat roof, and ground mounted solutions