OS Insights

Jackson Family Wines Portfolio

Picking up some winter spirits? Try one of the Jackson Family Wine locations powered by OnSwitch solar in this week’s Project Highlight! The JFW solar portfolio contains 3 projects in California totaling 1,783 kW and will save 48,943,350 pounds of CO2 annually! This is the equivalent of 4,320 homes' electricity usage for one year...

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8 New Jersey Grocery Stores

Buying holiday goodies? Try one of the grocery stores powered by OnSwitch’s solar projects in this week’s Project Highlight! This portfolio of 8 projects totaling 2.2 MW...

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800 kW for Multi-site Movie Theaters

Going to see a movie for the holidays? Try one of the theaters powered by OnSwitch’s solar projects in this week’s Project highlight! These 3 projects totaling 860 kW...

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Prevailing Wage Increasing Solar Costs in 2024

Important update for businesses in California considering solar – Prevailing Wage will increase costs for all solar projects by up to 8% starting Jan 1, 2024!. Specifically, Assembly Bill 2143, which was passed in 2022, will categorize all commercial solar projects larger than 15 kilowatts as public works projects, meaning that workers must be paid the prevailing wage, according to the type of work and location of the project. The prevailing wage rates are usually based

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Things to Know About NJ SUSI (new solar incentive program)

On July 28 the NJ Board of Public Utilities announced the Successor Solar Incentive (SUSI), which will officially launch August 28, bringing a close to the current TREC incentive. There is still time to secure the TREC incentive and applications must be submitted no later than August 27, 2021. Up to 41% reduction of incentive […]

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Changes Coming to California Net Metering

The CPUC is preparing to make changes to the way solar energy is net metered by the big three investor-owned utilities (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E). This will end the current net metering rules known as NEM2 and replace them with new rules under NEM3. There is little certainty about what NEM3 will look like, what we know is that it will be less favorable to solar customers. If you are thinking about going solar, get into NEM2 now while you still can. The CPUC is evaluating more...

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