HelioPower In the News

HelioPower, which was founded in Fallbrook, has received a contract from One Block Off the Grid to provide volume installation of energy-efficient residential systems.

For anyone watching a smug neighbor gloat over low electric bills, or who's watched one too many showings of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," here's a guide for how to decide if the sun has finally risen on your solar panel ambitions.

Anyone considering solar power probably has a green outlook. But what if the hue is more Dollar Bill Green than Environmentalist Green? For them, we offer this trip to the bottom line.

Installers say that several major panel factories worldwide ramped up production just before the economy crashed, leaving a glut on the market. 1BOG and its installer, HelioPower, can now install a system for $5.29 a watt, one of the lowest prices anywhere in the state.

One Block Off the Grid, the San Francisco firm that offers discount pricing on solar installations, will extend its current campaign in the Coachella Valley an extra month, company officials said Wednesday.

One Block Off the Grid participants are different, said Scott Gordon, whose company HelioPower worked with the company on the San Diego project.

HelioPower is bringing SunRun's solar financing and service to its California residential customers. Under the agreement, SunRun will purchase home solar systems designed and installed by HelioPower for its customers, who will pay only a one-time installation fee, and then a fixed rate for the solar electricity produced by their system.

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One Block Off the Grid (1BOG), the nation’s largest solar buying collective, today announced launch of its second solar community buying campaign to help San Diego County homeowners and small business owners purchase solar energy at group discount rates of $5.29 per watt from now through February 12, 2010.

Glenna Wiseman, VP of marketing for HelioPower (The HelioGroup) and a chair of the US Green Building Council's Inland Empire Chapter, stresses the importance of education and marketing in developing the green product market. "You'll see more and more companies opting for true education programs, because the environmental consumer (business or homeowner) will get increasingly savvy."