A new kind of solar agreement.

1. Step 1 · The beginning

   People paid cash for solar.

   Twenty, thirty, forty thousand dollars up front. Out of reach for most homeowners.

2. Step 2 · The first fix

   So the government introduced tax credits.

   Incentives to bring the price down. But complicated, a lot of homeowners don't qualify, or don't get the dollar amount they expected.

3. Step 3 · The PPA

   So the solar PPA was invented.

   The solar company holds the tax credits and uses them to pass a simple, fair price to the homeowner. No paperwork. No surprises. Solar made simple.

4. Step 4 · The next problem

   Then solar started spilling power onto the grid.

   So much rooftop solar came online that the grid couldn't absorb the surplus. To use your own solar at night instead of dumping it back to the grid, you needed a battery.

5. Step 5 · The catch

   But enough battery to matter got expensive fast.

   Storing a real amount of solar takes a large battery, and that added tens of thousands to the project. It pushed the monthly payment so high that a lot of homeowners weren't actually saving money anymore.

6. Step 6 · The fix, again

   So utilities introduced VPP credits.

   Homeowners could earn credits by letting their battery support the grid through a virtual power plant. The credits were meant to help cover the cost of the battery.

7. Step 7 · The same catch

   And most of those VPPs barely do anything.

   A lot of these programs only dispatch a battery a few times a year, so they never generate enough revenue to cover much of anything. On top of that, most homeowners don't know how to enroll or how to claim what they're owed. The credits exist; they just don't reach people, or add up to real money.

8. Step 8 · The SOLRITE VPA

   So we built the Virtual Power Plant Power Purchase Agreement.

   SOLRITE runs a real virtual power plant, not a program that dispatches your battery a couple times a year. Your battery works for the grid continuously, and that ongoing revenue is what covers the cost of the batteries. We keep the VPP credits and use them to include a large home battery with your solar, at no extra cost to you. Same idea as the PPA. New problem, same kind of answer.

And there it is: solar, simple again.