Emily Hwang Becomes EmPower’s 5th NABCEP certified Installer: The Most on Long Island

Emily Hwang, one of EmPower’s Solar Engineers, has received National recognition by NABCEP  (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners) by becoming certified in Solar PV installation.

Emily Hwang displays her NABCEP Certificate

EmPower is proud to boast that we have more NABCEP certified installers than any other solar contractor on Long Island.  Pictured below are EmPower’s 5 recipients of this prestigious certificate of achievement.

EmPower's NABCEP Certified Installers: David Hawkes, Greg Sachs (COO), Emily Hwang, David Schieren (CEO), and Mike Dunne

NABCEP is a nationally recognized credentialing body formed to set competency standards for professional practitioners in the fields of renewable and sustainable energy. Practitioners who choose to become certified must demonstrate their competence in the field and their commitment to upholding high standards of ethical and professional practice.

For More information on NABCEP please click here.

To meet Emily and some other members of our illustrious team click here.

EmPower Solar would like to congratulate Emily on this Milestone in her career and in maintaining the spirit of the EmPowering Way

INVERTER RECALL: NON-ISSUE FOR EMPOWERED CLIENTS

Last week LIPA sent a letter to all solar owners on Long Island about a Schneider Electric inverter recall that impacted products under the brand names Xantrex GT, SunPower, and General Electric.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RECALL DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY EQUIPMENT INSTALLED BY EMPOWER               

Rest assured the inverter(s) that EmPower installed at your home or business is in great shape.  The recalled inverters are made by a company called Xantrex that was recently acquired by Schneider Electric.  While Xantrex was once a market leader, EmPower had several bad  experiences with them between 2005 and 2007 and has since never used them.                                                                                                     

Please know that you would certainly receive notice from us right away if a product recall affected your system.

Of course, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you as always for your commitment to EmPower and to solar energy.

We are honored to have you as our client.

David G. Schieren
Chief Executive Officer

Call (516) 837-3459 for further information
www.empowerces.com

Act Now – LIPA Rebate Funds are Running Out!

If you are at all considering going solar, you don’t want to miss out on the fleeting opportunity to have up to 35% of your solar electric system paid for by LIPA.

The current rebate is $2.00/watt (up to 10KW) for a residential solar electric system.  That means LIPA will potentially pay up to $20,000 of the system cost!  However, it is possible that the LIPA Rebate will run out in the next two weeks and there are no guarantees that rebates will be available in the future.

The chart below was taken from the LIPA webpage:

This graph shows that as of August 6, 2010 the Solar Pioneer Rebate (which is the Residential program) is almost gone.  There are only 200 KW left for the year – that’s only 20 residential systems for all LIPA customers!  Just to give you some more insight, in the last three weeks the block went from 500KW to 800KW.  Within the next couple of weeks, the Solar Electric Rebate will likely disappear for the rest of the year.

If you would like to proceed with a solar electric system, there’s no time to waste if you want to secure these rebates.  Please call our Sales Manager, Joe Cordes, at your earliest convenience at 516-286-1477 and we can get you started.  We will have to submit your Rebate Application before they close the program for new applicants!

Invest with confidence. Act now.

“EmPower” Yourself

People try to convince Sal that if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. However, Sal reassures them that it is that good; solar really is a “no brainer.” This is not the Sal you might have read about in our case studies, but his cousin, Sal Agricola. EmPower was excited to install a system at the Agricolas because it is one of the few solar systems in Lynbrook. The Architectural Review Board was intrigued when Sal and Ramona came to explain their system. After asking many questions about solar, Sal recalls, “Then they got into it [and asked], do you have any business cards?”

The Agricolas are incredible solar advocates. They knew they were hooked on solar when Ramona started creating solar slogans. Here is her great motto that holds a very powerful message:

Save a tree, recycle paper.
Save the planet, recycle energy!

Be a part of the solution, become independent.
“EmPower” yourself.

We can only hope their messages will inspire other residents in Lynbrook to install solar. Look for a full case study coming soon.

Commercial Solar Installation Time-Lapse Video

EmPower Solar is a Premier Dealer of SunPower solar panels.  SunPower offers some of the top performing and top warrantied panels on the market.  Watch this SunPower provided time-lapse video of a commercial installation.  The video demonstrates the ease of installating SunPower’s T5 mounting system which requires no roof penetrations and no grounding.