Mount Your Solar on the Ground

Mount Your Solar on the Ground

Mount your solar on the ground! Solar power systems have become both more efficient in recent years – producing more power relative to space used – and more affordable. The latest innovation to benefit customers in the Charlotte area doesn’t have to do with the panels at all, but rather with the mounting systems that hold panels up and attach them to the ground.

Renu Energy Solutions, a solar installer for 11 years, has started to use a new means of mounting solar installations in a yard, and its saving clients money and making for a smoother, more desirable install process. To understand how transformational this is for their business it helps to look at how the solar service company used to approach “ground mounted” solar.

Renu Energy Solutions’ Director of Operations Andrew O’Donnell describes the difference that his team found in mounting a ground mount system: “We were used to either using ballast blocks or having to bring in an earth-mover to dig, but that’s all different now. For one thing we don’t have to deal with custom steel fabrication. The earth anchors make this system a much more flexible solution, and we don’t feel like we’re wrecking the look of the grass and terrain on the property. In fact now when we’re done it looks like we were never even there, except that there’s a solar installation secured in the ground.”

Other than shallow leveling for the system’s legs and a small trench to run cable back to the building using the solar service, no digging is needed thanks to the patent-pending innovation that works just by drilling 40-inch-deep holes. Renu Energy Solutions reports significantly greater customer satisfaction with these installations, who in turn are more likely to recommend it to their friends, and points to the ease of disassembly and relocation as a selling point for these movable solar projects. To recap the benefits:

• Save time and money
• Adjustable legs can install on uneven terrain
• Earth anchors provide hold-down capacity to meet code requirements
• No need to involve geotechnical experts
• No heavy equipment
• No ground screws
• No specialized skilled labor outside our usual team

Renu Energy Solutions President Jay Radcliffe beams, “For literally years, we’ve been thinking we’d like to find a system to mount solar on the ground less invasively and more easily.

Send us a request today to meet with a solar representative familiar with this mounting system about your solar goals.