The Exsilio Solar System

It's a pun that's been 6 months in the making, obviously I'm not talking about some new set of constellations that Exsilio's purchased based on gimmick advertisement on the back pages of a Mad Magazine nor the next discovery by Stephen Hawking... rather I'm talking about the Permit To Operate that Exsilio received this morning for the 185 solar panels that are now on the roof of the Exsilio Solution's Irvine Office that will power the entire office's down south. 

While the sun isn't in all parts (wink-wink, nudge-nudge Seattle peeps), for the most part it certainly is down here in SoCal.  So, as a company that does a tremendous amount of software development and virtualization applications, when we ran across the concept of switching to solar for the office it was something we definitely wanted to look into.

I'd love to say we're doing it only for the environment; however that’s being a bit over the top in the altruistic reasoning.  If you look at the tax incentives (when we started in August) at both the federal and state level, along with rebates from the power company directly... it just makes good financial sense.  And yes, it’s not bad that we're helping the environment as well.

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However, given I think we're only going to see a continued glutton of businesses both large and small switching to an alternative energy source the fascinatingly tremendous bureaucratic process/pain you're put through needs to be dealt with otherwise there's no way that they'll be able to keep up with the demand and it won't be long before the process which took us 6 months (should have really only been 3) would take over a year in the future for others. 
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I'm a staunch believer in looking at what you're doing and if there's a better win-win-win way of doing something, then it’s your responsibility to take action, as such the expedition to switch the down-south office over came to be.  It'll be cheaper in the long run, we certainly didn't have any plans for the roof top, and in just the first half of the first day we've generated over 119 kilowatt hours.

We're looking into ways to integrate our monitoring panel into our site, so more to come from that.  In addition, our implementation vendor RevCo Solar certainly stood by us and would be highly recommended for anyone looking.

I've included a few pics from the process and here's to more sunshine down here!