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Federal Solar Incentives Renewed Through 2023

Homeowners rejoice! The looming deadline to receive solar incentives on your solar installation has been extended - through 2023. The Federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) had been in a gradual step-down process over the last few years, and was set to expire in 2022 for residential solar installations. That changed, however, when Congress recently passed a $1.4 trillion federal spending and tax ...

GET INVOLVED: New Mexico Solar Tax Credit SB29

Friends, SB29, The Solar Market Development Income Tax Credit, is being heard in the Senate Corporations Committee. It is sponsored by Sen. Mimi Stewart and Rep. Matthew McQueen, and supported by the Governor as one of her top priorities. We urge you to call the Senate Corporations members (listed below) to demonstrate your support for the legislation. Please call and write with a personalized ...

Positive Energy Solar recognized as a "Best For The World" B Corp for sustainability and environmental excellence

Santa Fe, New Mexico; 9/4/19 – Positive Energy Solar, a Certified B Corp , has been named a Best For The World honoree in recognition of their environmental performance and sustainable business practices. Ranking in the top 10% of all B Corps for their environmental responsibility, Positive Energy Solar earned this honor because of initiatives such as choosing products that are manufactured with ...

Positive Energy Solar was selected to be an Albuquerque Business First "Best Place to Work" finalist for 2019.

Positive Energy Solar was selected to be an Albuquerque Business First “Best Place to Work” finalist for 2019. We’re honored to awarded this title and it just goes to show how dedicated we are to our employees. At Positive Energy Solar, we understand that people are our greatest asset; it's why we're employee owned and empower every team member in our company to carry the responsibility of having ...

Santa Fe chamber awards Positive Energy Solar as "City of Santa Fe Small Business of the Year"

SANTA FE - The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Santa Fe Business Awards. The awards were presented at the Chamber’s Red Carpet Business Awards Gala earlier this month. Over 100 local businesses were nominated this year. Judging criteria included: business growth, customer service, green and family friendly business practices, accomplishments within the ...

2018 Angie's List Super Service Awarded To Positive Energy Solar

Positive Energy Solar is proud to announce that it has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award (SSA) for 2018. This award honors service professionals who have maintained exceptional service ratings and reviews on Angie’s List in 2018. “Service pros that receive our Angie’s List Super Service Award represent the best in our network, who are consistently making ...

How to Finance Your Solar Panels in New Mexico

How to Finance Your Solar Panels in New Mexico Installing a rooftop solar system on your home may be one of the best decisions you can make to secure the long-term financial future of your family. However, there is often a disconnect between the long-term benefits and the short-term cost of installing the panels. Most families will need to finance all or part of their system . Luckily, there are ...

Positive Energy Solar - Serving New Mexico's solar energy needs since 1997

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves, we're Positive Energy Solar! What's in a name? You may have noticed our logo and name has "changed" recently, here's why: Back in 2015, we tried a marketing experiment with SunPower and co-branded our name to "SunPower by Positive Energy Solar". This ended up causing brand confusion as people didn't know what to call us anymore or whether we were still the same ...

New Mexico Solar Tax Credit - Legislative Update

New Mexico Solar Tax Credits While the 30% Federal Tax Credit for solar is set to begin ramping down at the end of 2019, a new bill (SB29) introduced into the 2019 legislative session would reintroduce the New Mexico Solar Tax Credit. New Mexico's previous solar tax credit system expired in 2016. The current 30% solar tax credit will apply to any solar installation completed by December 31, 2019. ...

SunPower Excluded from Solar Tariff

SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR) has received an exclusion from the solar trade tariffs on their unique integrated back contact solar cells. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has filed with the Federal Register office, for publication on Sept. 19, 2018, a decision that certain interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells and modules within specific size and power ranges, will be excluded from ...

Santa Fe Green Building - Talking Solar in the Santa Fe Parade of Homes

Santa Fe Parade of Homes Winners Trust Positive Energy Solar Positive Energy Solar has been a sponsor for the Haciendas - Santa Fe Parade of Homes for several years and continues with the 2018 Santa Fe Parade of Homes. Several of the homes this year included solar panels installed by Positive Energy Solar including two of the winners for "Best energy efficiency", "Best smart home technology" and ...

Financing or Buying a Home with Solar from Homewise

Positive Energy Solar partners with with several New Mexico builders and financing companies throughout the state. We offer solar financing options to install on your existing home, solar for new construction, or buying a new home from one of our building partners that have solar as a standard option, like Homewise ! Elena Gonzales of Homewise and Christopher Fortson, Marketing Coordinator at ...

Trump's Tariffs Can't Stop Solar. Here's Why.

Trump’s Tariffs Can’t Stop Solar. Here’s Why. This is the best time for homeowners and business owners to switch to clean, affordable energy. On January 22 nd , the Trump Administration announced a 30% tariff on US imports of solar cells and panels. But—for New Mexico homeowners and businessowners—the news doesn’t change a fundamental fact: 2018 is still an extraordinarily good time to go solar! ...

How the New Tax Bill Improves the Financial Performance of Commercial Solar PV

This post originally from our friends over at Namaste solar. The final draft of the new tax bill delivered some unexpected benefits to the solar industry and to commercial entities interested in going solar. The tax bill changes the risk and rewards calculations involved in commercial solar energy and moves the needle further into the reward territory. The two provisions at play are the reduced ...

Clearing the Air: ​No ​Solar Fees ​for New Mexican Customers of El Paso Electric

El Paso Electric will instate a “minimum bill” in Texas for new solar customers but not in New Mexico. ____ In December, the Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved a plan to let El Paso Electric impose a minimum bill of $30 on new solar customers – likely the highest such fee anywhere in the nation. While the misguided move will deny some Texas homeowners the full benefits of solar, ...

Looming Threat of Tariff on Solar Panels - Get Solar Now or Pay More Later

Seize the moment for unprecedented low installation costs. The price of solar has fallen dramatically. Installation costs are now half what they were in 2008 and 100 times less than what they were back in 1978. But new action from the White House could undo much of this progress. President Trump is now threatening to place tariffs on imports of solar panels—an action that could double the cost of ...

Powering Up a Solar Brand: New Mexico Solar

Regina Wheeler, CEO of Positive Energy Solar was recently featured on Santa Fe based radio show, ‘Those Branding Guys’ to talk about the rich history of the company and solar industry throughout New Mexico. “Migration to renewable energy solutions is increasing exponentially across the country. Due to our abundant sunshine, New Mexico is #2 in the nation for solar resources, making it a great ...

Top-growth firms surge

We have grown this year and our company is set on a path of continued sustainable growth. We want to be here for the long haul, so that we can better serve our clients and partners well into the future. This Wednesday evening we will be recognized as a “Flying 40” company. Read about the Flying 40 list here.

UPDATE on NM Solar Tax Credit: IMPORTANT information for clients who have yet to file for their NM Solar Tax Credit

Dear Valued Clients, Thank you for making Positive Energy Solar the number one solar energy partner in New Mexico. Your support of a local, employee owned Benefits corporation shows your desire to empower businesses that serve their community. Our mission is to provide reliable service through the ever-changing landscape of incentives available to solar power customers. This message is to inform ...

How To Transform Santa Fe from the City Different to the City Solar

Earlier this March, at a Santa Fe Forward-sponsored conversation held at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Mayor Javier Gonzales held a conversation on how to alleviate climate change while creating jobs and fighting poverty here in the City Sustainable Gonzales sat down with Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor and author of Greening the Global Economy, ...

PNM should invest in New Mexico's clean energy future.

Esteemed Public Regulations Commissioners, Happy New Year to all of you. My name is Evan Rohar; I am a residential solar installer working in Albuquerque for Positive Energy Solar. I humbly request that you reject both PNM’s proposed power replacement plan for the San Juan Generating Station and the proposed rate case on economic, public health, and environmental grounds to make way for clean, ...

Inaugural Las Cruces Chile Drop Powered By Positive Energy Solar

Georgia has the Peach Drop, lowering a giant 800-pound peach to celebrate the countdown to the new year. Then there’s the famous crystal ball drop from Times Square in New York City – an event that more than one billion watch worldwide. This year, enter the first Las Cruces Chile Drop for New Mexicans to ring in the new year in a befitting style. A 15-foot illuminated chile powered by Positive ...

Solar Company Harnesses the Sun for Job Creation Across New Mexico

New Mexicans’ increasing adoption of solar energy for homes, businesses and schools has created a welcome ripple effect in the state: job creation. Positive Energy Solar, New Mexico’s largest Certified Benefits Corporations (B Corp) and one of the state’s largest solar companies with more than 1,000 solar installations, has added 25 jobs already this year. The employee-owned solar energy company ...

Disruption: Climate. Change.

This movie is the reason we are in business. I encourage you to make time in to see this and to spread this around to as many people as you can. Humanity is close to the turning point, the most profound moment in the history of mother earth and the human race. This beautiful, powerful message is a gift to us, the timing is perfect! http://watchdisruption.com/

Positive Energy Solar Honored as "Best for the Environment" for Positive Environmental Impact

Today, Positive Energy Solar was recognized for creating the most positive environmental impact among Midsize Businesses (50+ employees)by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual “B Corp Best for the Environment” list. The list honors 84 businesses that earned an environmental impact score in the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations on the B Impact Assessment, a rigorous ...