Solar 101
What happens to my solar system during a power outage when there is no battery?
What is my solar system shuts off and my power goes out too?
This percentage of Iceland’s electricity comes from renewable energy sources.
What is about 99 percent?
(And they do that in one of the coldest, darkest places. Because renewables are about resources, not weather.)
This is what sets Rooftop Power apart from many national solar companies when it comes to installs.
What is we install locally and handle our work in-house?
What is needed in order to schedule Site Survey for a deal?
What is entering everything into Podio. The full utility bill, NEM documents, and the design photo?
This is the exact moment a homeowner suddenly remembers they have a spouse.
What is when it’s time to sign?
What is more important to the production of the solar panel system? The inverter or panel?
What is an Inverter?
This season often produces the most efficient solar power.
What is spring?
(Solar panels usually produce the most power in spring, not summer.
Cool temperatures help panels work more efficiently.)
At Rooftop Power, this core value guides how we sell, educate homeowners, and operate every day.
What is integrity?
This is the very first goal of an appointment sit. Before numbers, pricing, or solar.
What is building trust/rapport?
This is the one thing every RTP rep has said at least once this month.
What is I'm running late?
Where does excess solar energy go when a home’s battery is fully charged during peak summer production?
What is the excess power gets exported back to the grid?
Most modern solar panels are tested to survive this size of hailstone hitting them at about 50 miles per hour.
What is about a 1-inch hailstone?
This additional home service Rooftop Power offers alongside solar helps protect the system long term.
What is roofing?
Great salespeople talk less and do more of this.
What is listening?
This all-time RTP quarterback has incredible arm strength… unfortunately to the other team.
Who is Tito?
This piece of equipment is required for solar power to be usable inside a home.
What is an inverter?
About this many hours of sunlight hitting Earth’s surface could cover the world’s energy use for a full year.
What is about 1.5 hours?
Not counting the owners, Rooftop Power currently has this many leaders responsible for running core parts of the company — name all of them to get full points.
What is five leaders:
Ariana over HR and roofing,
Darrell over office support,
Sheena over sales,
Tanner over installs,
and Heather over financing?
This is the reason reviewing the utility bill matters more than going over the savings.
What is showing the problem before the solution?
This search engine was accidentally rebranded when Callaway went looking for leads.
What is “White People Search”?
This is the approximate percentage of Rhode Island’s electricity that currently comes from solar power.
What is about 12 percent?
Approximately how many homes in the United States currently have solar panels installed? (number or percentage)
What is about 4.7 million homes?
OR
What is roughly 7 percent of U.S. households?
This is the most underrated skill for succeeding at RTP.
What is showing up?
This is what Align Protection covers.
What is panel and inverter repair, racking and roof penetration, truck roll inspection, parts and labor?
Hank needed three months to figure out this important thing.
What is which companies he didn’t want to work with?