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Washington now has a solar sales tax exemption
Thanks to the 100% Clean Electricity Act passed in 2019, Washington solar tax exemption means sales tax has been removed from most typical residential s…

Community support in 2018
We have a fun tradition at A&R Solar of allowing our employees to decide what organizations the company should donate to at the end of the year.

Solar means savings for affordable senior housing
New affordable housing Eleanor Apartments in Bellingham, Washington, goes solar to help protect the environment and assist with city’s housing crisis.

Mighty Tieton Artist Incubator Adds Commercial Solar
Mighty Tieton adds commercial solar to its largest facility to do away with a substantial electric bill and CONTINUES to support artists and the town of…

How much energy does a solar panel produce?
Transcript How much energy does a solar panel produce is one of the most common questions we encounter from prospective customers?

How Your Solar PV System Works
Transcript The solar panels on your roof collect the energy from the sun and convert that into DC voltage.

Kilowatt vs. Kilowatt Hour
Transcript Here’s a little science lesson for you. A kilowatt is a unit of measurement, and it’s a thousand watts.

Solar monitoring: How it works
Solar Monitoring Explained There are a lot of different inverter manufacturers out there, and they all provide–or the majority provide–some sort of so…

Solar Monitoring: Troubleshooting
Transcript Some of the main issues we run into when you have a monitoring site–it’s really just internet related.

Solar Monitoring: Checking In On Your System’s Production
Solar Monitoring: Checking Your System’s Production There is a fair amount of systems which will have built-in solar monitoring.
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