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Solar power can potentially save homeowners significant amounts of money on electricity every year.  However, installing solar panels into a home can be extremely costly.  It also requires significant amounts of time and effort many working people simply don’t have.  Cool product Sunrun is a service that makes these issues irrelevant by repackaging solar power as a cheap, fixed-rate service to consumers.  Rather than having to purchase solar panels for a high price and install the technology themselves, consumers who sign up for Sunrun receive free panels and installation in return for signing a contract that requires a monthly fee. Sunrun says on their site that they offer locked-in rates for twenty years, so a customer’s electric bill remains static over long periods of time.  Sunrun proposes that it can still save homeowners money with its solar power as a service model, while offering lower fixed rates compared to traditional electricity’s unstable month-to-month prices.  With Sunrun’s fixed monthly fees, consumers shouldn’t have to worry about electricity-hogging activity like air conditioning or keeping the computer on for long periods during remote computer support sessions. Read more »

With so much of the Earth’s surface area exposed to sunlight at any given moment, solar power seems like it would be a no-brainer as a renewable energy source.  Especially in already-developed areas of the world – cities, along highways, etc. – there are plenty of surfaces that could conceivably be covered in solar panels to generate electricity for industrial or residential use.  Actually, the problems of the solar energy industry are far more complicated than that.  As a result, every major renewable energy company employs a corporate officer who is responsible for developing a strategy for improving the distribution of products, educating the public, and guiding the product development within the company.  For Slunce Solar Technology, that executive is Debbie Varga. Read more »