groSolar was recognized for its impressive growth last night at the 7th Annual 5×5x5 Growth Awards from Vermont Business Magazine. The 5×5x5 Growth Awards recognize 5 companies in 5 sectors who have experienced major growth over the last 5 years. This is the second year that groSolar has been recognized. groSolar experienced 3429% sales growth over the last 5 years.

Live in the San Diego area? Own a home and have SDG&E as your electric company? Interested in solar energy? Then sign up to win a chance at one of three $1,000 cash prizes or one lucky winner will get their home powered by the sun for free! Say what?! Free solar electritiy? Yep, that’s right. groSolar has partnered with 91x and Magic 92.5 to offer one lucky winnter free solar electricity. How do you apply? Go to 91x.com/gogreen or magic925.com/gogreen for full details and entry form. Apply online or fill out the sweepstakes form on the back of the 91X sticker (slap it on your car and you could win even more prizes!)

Check out the link to the radio commercial on 91X below. We got a kick out of it!

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Check out the new sign at our office in Berkeley (1501 Eastshore Highway). You can’t miss us now!

Dealers – we have listened to your feedback and are giving you the tools that you asked for!

Doing business with groSolar has never been easier. Now our dealers can take advantage of full partner functionality by logging in to groSolar’s on-demand, integrated business management software. The groSolar Customer Center allows our dealers to:

• Enter an Estimate
• Place an Order
• Track Shipments
• Download the Latest Pricing
• Search for Invoices, Credits, Orders, Estimates, etc.
• View Invoice History

The groSolar Customer Center lets our dealers to run their businesses more efficiently and effectively. We’ve driven efficiencies in the solar industry and now we’re passing them onto our dealers.

We have been really excited to recently unveil our Green Benefits Program. The groSolar Green Benefits Program offers group discounts on solar power systems for employees of companies who sign up for Green Benefits. The first company to sign on and offer Green Benefits to their employees is Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

How it works is that the employer contributes some money to each system purchased by their employee. groSolar also kicks in a per watt discount for the system (usually around $0.25). Tack on state and federal incentives and any local financing options and the program brings the up-front cost of solar power way, way down.

Check out the video and story from NECN (New England Cable News)

We have been really excited to recently unveil our Green Benefits Program. The groSolar Green Benefits Program offers group discounts on solar power systems for employees of companies who sign up for Green Benefits. The first company to sign on and offer Green Benefits to their employees is Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

How it works is that the employer contributes some money to each system purchased by their employee. groSolar also kicks in a per watt discount for the system (usually around $0.25). Tack on state and federal incentives and any local financing options and the program brings the up-front cost of solar power way, way down.

Check out the video and story from NECN (New England Cable News)

I had the pleasure of participating in the Edison Electric Institute Annual Conference in San Francisco earlier this summer. I spoke on the panel on Solar Power which was the platform for some interesting quotes including my quote from the title of this post. You can see some of the other conference quotes here.

On Saturday, August 29th groSolar’s relay team “Speed of Solar” participated in the 4th annual CHaD Half Marathon. This was a fund raising event for the  Children’sHospital at Dartmouth that groSolar proudly sponsored. The CHaD Half Marathon was a fun filled event regardless of the less than desirable conditions, the event included a walking course, the half marathon itself, as well as an attempt to break the world record for most people dressed up as superheroes in one place – this record attempt was to signify the many heros that help to save children’s lives each day at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. The Guinness Book of World Records people were on hand to count up each and every super hero – the record was previously held at 106 people and was successfully broken with a stifling number of 1,016 people dressed up as superheroes on the Dartmouth Green in Hanover, NH.

Team “Speed of Solar” consisted of team Captain Dawn “The Princess of Power“ Martin – Marketing Coordinator here at groSolar, Gaelan “Able to Leap Tall Buildings in A Single Bound“  Brown – VP of Marketing, and Noah “Faster Than A Speeding Bullet” Tuthill – Solar Design Engineer. Team “Speed of Solar” completed the 13.1 mile race in 1 hour 58 minutes and 33 seconds, finishing 59th out of 98 relay teams averaging a 9 minute 3 second mile.

groSolar is proud to have such an active and positive roll in the community and employees willing to go out and punish themselves in the remnant effects of a tropical storm for such a good cause!

Thank you team “Speed of Solar”! We are proud of you!