BACK TO LIFE

WHAT THE INDUSTRY NEEDS RIGHT NOW

We envision transforming the 120 million commercial and industrial (C&I) buildings in the U.S. into clean power plants to reduce over 70% of our nation’s electric fossil fuel demand. That means not only transforming 90 billion square feet of empty rooftops we see as idle assets into solar power generation platforms, but also addressing a fast-increasing need to repower idling and otherwise underperforming systems.

Our Back to Life end of use plan for modules and other system components is unique in the industry. In fact, in forming our company we recognized that system owners, regulators, and community members are becoming highly concerned about what happens to solar panels at the end of their useful life. It's been estimated as much as 78 million tons of solar equipment could be headed for landfills in the immediately foreseeable future.

So our strategic end of use plan is to not only divert decommissioned equipment from landfills, but also repurpose systems in truly powerful ways, effectively re-powering them for and with non-profit organizations including schools and churches, multifamily affordable housing communities, community centers including parks, and other scenarios that could benefit from low-cost solar but not predicated on tax incentives or requiring of new, state-of-the-art technologies.

We see opportunities that most of the solar industry does not. Mainly as most industry activity focuses on sell, set and forget, not the full lifecycle, performance and economics of the system on your roof through its 30-year useful life. Legacy projects are literally in or fast approaching midlife crisis, underperforming both technologically and economically.

We’ve developed the program to divert much of an estimated 78 million tons of soon-to-be decommissioned solar panels from landfills. We accomplish this by repurposing these systems in communities and with organizations that otherwise would not be able to afford the transition to renewable energy.

We frequently repower aging systems, power up new systems, and empower partners and the communities they serve to not only solve a number of problems we’ve seen develop since 2006, but also future-proof solutions moving forward.

The Back to Life program offers legacy system owners cash upfront for aging assets and a new high-efficiency solar array that generates more revenue using 50% less equipment with dramatically less embodied carbon, which is now an elevated concern across the solar industry and other sustainably-oriented sectors of the built environment.

Legacy projects are literally in or fast approaching midlife crisis, underperforming both technologically and economically. Our flagship Back to Life program provides current solar system owners with immediate liquidity, accelerates return on investment (ROI), and delivers a new ability to sleep better at night.