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How Energy Master Planning Keeps your Energy Costs Down
- July 10, 2019
- Karly Zimmerman Fogg
- InsightSchools
You may wonder what the best, most effective way is to lower your energy costs. The answer is a comprehensive approach...

How CCAs can model and deploy battery energy storage systems and DERs
- July 8, 2019
- Ali Chehrehsaz
- Insight
With the rapid emergence of community choice energy agencies (CCAs) throughout the state, California schools, municipalities and other public agencies are...

The Top 5 Ways Solar Owners Lose Money
- July 16, 2018
- David Burdick
- InsightSchoolsSolar
How much money did you lose last year on your solar investment? In California alone, we’ve seen 21 gigawatts of solar...

City Loses Thousands. Discovered Their Solar Was Off For 3 Years.
- July 16, 2018
- David Burdick
- Insight
Imagine this. You are hired as an intern for a local government agency and tasked with creating an inventory of their...

New Sources of Revenue and Cost Savings for Water Agencies and Other Public Agencies Using Battery Storage
- October 28, 2017
- Ali Chehrehsaz
- Asset ManagementInsightWater Agencies
As SCE continues to increase the demand charge component of TOU rate structures, public agencies in SCE territory are considering the...

Urgent: DSA Says To Do a Solar Panel Safety Check
- August 10, 2017
- Ali Chehrehsaz
- InsightSchools
The California Division of the State Architect recently notified school districts and solar contractors of three instances where solar panels dislodged...

Prop 39 Deadline Gets Extended and How to Get Ready for Summer 2018 Construction
- July 19, 2017
- Ali Chehrehsaz
- InsightSchools
Earlier this week, the Governor signed, AB 110, legislation that extends Prop 39: the Clean Energy Jobs Act, indefinitely. If you...

Four examples of why you need Solar Asset Management
- June 6, 2017
- Ali Chehrehsaz
- InsightSchools
As the Asset Management Services provider for hundreds of solar PV and energy storage systems, we’ve seen just about everything. By...

The Savings Numbers are Piling Up
- January 4, 2017
- Ali Chehrehsaz
- Insight
The first number is $10,300,000, the amount of money our clients have saved on their electricity bills since one of our first...