Summary

The early adopters for solar were definitely environmentalists. The cost for solar, when I started installing, when we talk in terms of cost per watt, the cost per watt was somewhere around six bucks.

I mean, to give you an example at the Crane Arts Building we did 444 solar modules on the roof there. And that cost about $550,000, something like that. So a little over a half a million dollars, not, not an inexpensive solar install. If I were to do that same solar installation today, it would probably be under $200,000.

So the cost has come down tremendously. So the early adopters were not as concerned with cost. They were more concerned with the environmental benefits. But as the solar equipment and parts and everything came down, it became an economic advantage for people and that widened the appeal of solar. And now we’re at yet another wave where we’re seeing people who ordinarily would not think about having a battery or resiliency in their system are really thinking about that.

And as an example, you know, my father the other day asked me, Hey, maybe I should be thinking about getting a battery in the house just in case something happens. And I said to him, you know, I think a lot of people are thinking the way you are these days. It’s good to have a backup plan just in case something were to happen. It’s a pretty tumult tumultuous world as we’ve witnessed over the past few weeks.