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Solar console installer SolarCity Corp. is partnering with electronics alternation Best Buy to adviser homeowners and added barter through the action of activity solar.
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The San Mateo, Calif., aggregation said Wednesday it has placed assembly in about 35 California stores, including 11 in the Southland, to do quick assessments for shoppers and their homes. The affairs additionally includes about 15 Best Buy shops in Arizona, Oregon, New York and Hawaii.
These in-store Solar City advisers will accord shoppers on-the-spot estimates of abeyant electricity accumulation if solar panels are installed and what the arrangement could attending like, giving the solar installer addition access to ability abeyant customers.
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"People go to Best Buy to buy all sorts of accessories and appliances, and about aggregate you buy consumes a amazing bulk of electricity -- your flat-screen TV, your dishwasher," SolarCity Chief Executive Lyndon Rive said in an interview. "Now we can advertise a artefact that addresses those activity needs."
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The new adventure by SolarCity comes at a time of accelerated advance for solar in California and the country. The cardinal of solar systems installed in 2013 jumped 41% over the year before, according to the Solar Activity Industries Assn. At the aforementioned time, the amount of installing panels fell 15%.
Rive said SolarCity has begin success in a agnate affiliation with home advance alternation Home Depot. The key, he said, was accepting face time with shoppers to explain how abundant money they could save by activity solar.
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"The casework we offer, it tends to be a communicative sale," he said. "Meaning best bodies don't accept the amount hypothesis until they absorb two or three account alert to it, and the amount hypothesis is cheaper, cleaner energy."
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Best Buy already sells buzz affairs in-store, which are about a account service, Rive added. "Now we will be able to advertise activity through that store," he said.
The Southland locations accommodate Best Buy food in Thousand Oaks, Corona, Oxnard and Glendora. SolarCity is alms barter who assurance up for solar account afore Earth Day a $100 Best Buy allowance card.
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