When you’re about to make a big investment, connecting with the right people is key. The same rule applies when you’re about to make a major home improvement – you want to make sure you’re familiar with the right network of professionals and experts. One helpful resource for exploring residential solar energy options is CalFinder. CalFinder is a network of solar contractors in the United States and connects homeowners with industry experts and certified solar contractors.
CalFinder’s Residential Solar Power blog is particularly valuable for those interested in keeping up to date with solar news and industry trends. It’s updated frequently and features articles on the latest in energy, environment, and technology, as well as interviews with solar professionals. In fact, CalFinder recently interviewed our Director of Sales, Grayson Morris, about home solar pricing and his job at SunRun. As a director, Grayson’s role is to help his team talk to homeowners about SunRun – each of his team members has an individual conversation with each and every single homeowner who calls or emails SunRun about going solar or wants a SunRun solar quote. In fact, that’s one of his favorite aspects about his job – hearing the great homeowner solar success stories.
You can read the full CalFinder interview on their site, but here’s an excerpt below:
CalFinder: What’s your favorite part about this job?
Grayson: My favorite part is the stories we hear from customers about why they want to go solar and how easy SunRun has made it for them. Frequently, we get calls from people who couldn’t save enough to buy a system outright ($30,000+) and they’re super happy when they discover that SunRun can help them go solar for about the cost of a couple of airplane tickets. When they get the system installed and they’re standing in their yard watching the meter spin backwards, they’ll give us a call and laugh. That’s the fun part.
CalFinder: What’s your role in the process?
Grayson: My role is to guide my team that talks to homeowners across the country about SunRun. Each day, we get calls, e-mails and inquiries from the five states we currently operate in. The folks under me have an individual conversation with every single one of them. We ask them why they are looking into solar, we view their home on-line to make sure their roof can accommodate a solar system, and we provide ballpark figures around the economics of going solar with SunRun. It’s important that we’re talking intelligently about SunRun and that we share a consistent message with homeowners across the country.
CalFinder: How did SunRun get started and where do you see the company headed?
Grayson: SunRun was started by two classmates from the business school at Stanford. They saw that there were a bunch of companies doing this in the commercial sector (solar on Wal-Mart, Costco, Whole Foods, etc.) but no one was helping homeowners go solar. That was 2007. Their first office was in the attic of the co-founder’s home (I worked there that summer). Now we have 60+ people and we’re outgrowing our office space in San Francisco.
It has been a fun journey but we’re just getting started. There’s no reason 1 in 10 homes shouldn’t have a solar system on their rooftop. A few years from now, you’ll be able to stand in the street of any neighborhood in California and I bet you’ll spot 5 solar systems and several will be SunRun systems. This is the way people will buy the bulk of their electricity going forward. It just makes a lot of sense.
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