For more information or to register, visit the event’s website.

We are excited to see our partners at Mountain View Solar & Wind receive this recognition for their strong efforts in developing the solar industry in West Virginia. MVWS has been a pioneering force for solar in the state, helping their customers sell into the Washington DC and Pennsylvania platforms.

For more information on this story, see here, and be sure to tune in tonight to BBC World News America at 7:00 to see!

Dave is a new solar owner from New Jersey who has chronicled his experience going solar in his blog at solarpowr.blogspot.com.  In writing about his journey to go solar, Dave has shed a great deal of light on the entire process.  He’s been an advocate for our services and we are excited to get him started!

One of the the things we love about our business is the role we play in enabling solar.  Matt of PIMBY Energy, LLC (i.e. Power-In-My-Back-Yard) recently signed up with us and sold his first SRECs in the PA market.  He also wrote about his first experience selling SRECs. The exciting part of this news is that Matt is an installer in West Virginia, a state without an SREC program! Because he is in the PJM region, his SRECs are eligible for registration in PA, OH and potentially DC. Since Matt was registered in PA, his SRECs were sold in our November PA SREC auction. If you are in West Virginia or Virginia, we encourage you to reach out to PIMBY to find out more.

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a wonderful holiday.

Completely hands-free: we manage the sale of your SRECs at market prices
Set a minimum: you control the price at which your SRECs are sold
Generator registration service: SRECTrade will register and manage your generating unit in GATS
SREC creation: we handle and monitor the creation of your SRECs
SREC transactions: we process all transactions on your behalf and send you a check
Account management: SRECTrade can provide a detailed account history like this:

EasyREC Account History

Selling SRECs online in the monthly auctions is free.  However, the hands-free EasyREC service will be provided at a management fee of 3% of the transaction price.  This fee will cover the administrative costs involved with implementing the service on behalf of our EasyREC clients.  The fee is taken out when payments are made to sellers.  So if SRECs sell for $500, SRECTrade will send EasyREC clients $485.

Our approach has been met with a considerable amount of enthusiasm from solar owners in search of ways to get the best value for their SRECs. We’ve captured some of this feedback on our Testimonials page.  Small business owners and individual home owners who have made the choice to go solar have had little guidance about the SREC market.  Questions loomed about how it worked, where to sell these SRECs and how to value them.  With our SREC Program Information page, we set out to describe the SREC program in layman’s terms and give our clients a clear understanding of what influenced SREC pricing.  In addition to that, our auction clearing prices, as determined by supply and demand, have brought a visibility to the market that had not existed before.  The benefits to our clients are clear, but we are also finding that our public pricing model is generating much interest from other traders, investors, universities and even neighboring state governments.

We launched this venture because we believed there was a missing link in the SREC model and our goal remains the same: bring efficiency to an inefficient market, creating and delivering value to the solar generators.  Recently, we came across a blog post by Dave Conifer who was installing a solar system for the first time and writing about it at http://solarpowr.blogspot.com/.  His story really narrowed in on the exact issue that we are trying to address.  While we were encouraged to know that we turned out to be exactly what Dave was looking for, it was a telling reminder that we still have a long way to go in getting the attention of installation companies as an alternative to the brokers they have been recommending.