Why are we deciding to chop up San Diego between two solar power companies? by dave

As you’ll find out this coming week, we’ve decided to split the San Diego Solar Energy Group Purchase Program into two geographic reasons each handled by a seperate installer. I thought the question “why?” would be worth a blog post of an answer.

• First, both companies’ discounts were head and shoulders above the rest, but their offerings were extremely similar.  When we got to the end, they kept matching each others pricing.
• Second, both companies have a long history and are financially stable.  We were comfortable with both of their businesses’ installation practices, warranties, referrals, products, install team, and sales team.  There was no compelling reason to pick one over the other.
• Third, it’s just getting into summer, the best time of the year for solar integrators.  It’s on peoples’ minds right now with the heat and the high bills.  As a result there’s more business and two integrators offer us more ability to handle the large group, in this already relatively busy time.  
• Fourth, as you probably know, San Diego is huge.  As you can see from the blue dots, both installers (groSolar to the south, and Heliopower to the north), are far apart.  Both have done boat loads of installations both territories we have selected, but truck rolls and gas are expensive, and part of our value proposition is removing costs through economies of scale and passing those to our members.  This helps us do that.

So, in summary, by splitting it up we get twice the sales team to service you, twice the installation throughput, extra savings to the comapanies from shorter truck rolls, all with two identical pricing from two great companies.  Made a lot of sense to us.

Keep your eyes pealed this week for the details on the current SD solar group purchase campaign for pricing on solar panels and installation, solar financing details, timing, and instructions.