It is time to catch up on Arizona’s solar energy state.
To help us report to you, we invited Rosie certified partners at Sun Valley Solar Solutions to update us, including founder and CEO Russ Patzer and senior VP of marketing Kyle Ritland, Sr.
Q: What’s new in solar energy?
A: Solar energy is still from the sun, of course, but how our state utilities handle energy coming onto their grid has changed considerably.
Utility companies who use the time-of-use rate have started discouraging homeowners from feeding solar electricity into the grid as it is generated. The time of day, typically midday, when the sun is producing the most, is not the time of day when power companies see the demand for peak power.
Typically, the sun generates the most electricity between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily. As a result, this is when solar panels typically…
