Below are some comments from a session I moderated at PV America in Philadelphia on June 9:

The confluence of events that has brought us here today is staggering.

Once upon a time, a husband and wife decided to leave Chicago and return to Vermont to “simplify” their lives, and follow their passion to create a small solar energy company. Then they come to understand the magnitude of climate change, and this couple decides they should work on solving it. (Naiveté has always been a strong suit). And so groSolar began.

Business school case studies will be written about this time in the solar industry, and the business transformations that occurred. Read the rest of this entry »

The new operations center and warehouse in the Mid-Atlantic Region is now open!  The new space is located in Jessup, MD and will increase our direct installation services locally and introduce distribution capacity to our the Mid-Atlantic offices.  We hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate on April 17th, and were joined by many local officials.  In the picture the ribbon is cut by (left to right), Director of the Maryland Energy Administration Malcolm Woolf, groSolar VP of Policy & Market Development Richard Deutschmann, and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman.