Hot Water Maintenance

Please click the useful link for "How to flush a solar system".

A Happy Customer sent us recent HECO bill

Customer completed PV installation in June 2010.

New Hawaii Energy Program " Interest Buy Down'

Hawaii Energy introduced new program called "Interest buy down'. They will pay you the interest portion when you buy Solar Water Heating System through any financing program.

This is effectively no interest loan up to 5 years. We are also working with First Hawaiian Bank. Please see the ad below.


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Testimonials

“Our 16 panels and micro inverters have dropped our electricity bill by $250 a month. We have a 7500 square foot house and our goal is to get our bill down to zero. We will definitely use Pacific Energy again to expand our system. The tax credit process was simple and we can track how much electricity we produce. This investment has been worth it. Energy costs are only going to keep going up and it will take us around five years to recoup what we paid for our system. You can’t get that kind of return anywhere else.”

Mark Thompson, Waialua

“Our system has produced 6000kWh since May 2008. That’s around18kWh a day with 16 panels. I am very impressed with Pacific Energy and appreciate their service. Every time something needed to be done, they were here. The installation was also very fast. We now only pay the HECO service charge and generate all of our own electricity.”

John Burke, Waianae

“Pacific Energy is a great company to work with. The quality is excellent and the installers were very professional. We have 20 panels with micro inverters. Our bill was previously $160-180 and now we only pay the $18 service charge and have 113kWh of credit.”

Glenn Skedeleski, Royal Kunia

Solar Financing Rate Going Up! Don't Delay!

We have been recommending to our clients to not dally when it comes to the decision of when to do solar. It is clear that some of the utility and Government sponsorship is already going away. Now even the best program for financing is tightening its belt, as the cost of oil creeps upward yet again. Right now, solar is a spectacular investment with a very high annual rate of return, far higher than you could expect with any traditional investment like mutual funds, 401K, bank CD’s.

For those waiting to see if this investment “gets even better” we advise that we think this is as good as it gets for many many years. Panel prices on PV are creeping up, except for the low grade foreign brands which don’t have a long track record.

Nice Bill Reduction!

Pool Solar

Pools use a lot of energy on just the pumping systems necessary to keep them clean and sanitary. But heating systems for pools, like heat pumps, gas heaters, or god forbid electric resistance heating use A LOT of energy and money!

Pool solar can replace or complement those systems. With Pool Solar, you can more useful months out of the year, on the investment that is called "Your Pool". Why let it sit there through winter, or find it not as relaxing as it should be.

Get a free estimate on Pool Solar so you can balanced the costs and rewards, you will like it.

Microinverter Webpage Reporting

The Micro-inverter System has shown itself to be very reliable, and have some very useful reports that you can get from any computer in the world. They put your real time energy production on the web, and you can password protect that if you don't want noisy neighbors who are jealous of your free electricity, looking at it.

Potential Clipping (aka Pegging) a Microinverter Output

Modeling this is tough, but an Engineer with a Masters from the University of Michigan, I did enough calculations to simply convince myself....don't worry about the "Clip"

Annual Rate of Return

One of the safest places to invest is in money market funds, or just an FDIC insured bank.

Stocks and Bonds are sketchy, they can plummet as fast as people can click a mouse, and High Frequency Trading Robots can run for the exits faster than lemmings over a cliff.

From Bankrate the following:

The online service Bankrate.com said its survey of 100 leading commercial banks, savings and loan associations and savings banks in the nation's 10 largest markets showed the annual percentage yield available on money market accounts rose to 0.20 percent in the week ended Wednesday from 0.19 percent in the previous week.

Full article here:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100902/D9I00PO82.html

What if you could find a safe way to make 100 times that Annual Rate of Return? What if this investment also protected you from future energy cost increases?

Photovoltaics -- Solar Electricity -- is just that investment. Typical returns are 20+ % per year.

Shouldn't part of your portfolio be renewable energy -- PV? It really is a no-brainer. Remove money from money market,or mutual fund, put on roof ---- increase your returns dramatically. And you don't get taxed on the income you generate on your roof.