Our homes and businesses are designed to have a functional power grid. Many of the comforts of home rely on having power to run our lights, heating systems, appliances, and electronics. During power outages, our houses and offices are dark, cold, and inhospitable. For this...
Sundog Solar is now installing Tesla solar energy products! These sleek solar panels and batteries are known for innovation in the solar energy industry. In addition to the electric vehicles, Tesla produces solar panels, the Powerwall battery system, and electric vehicle chargers. Many of our customers...
Increasingly, Mainers are installing solar systems with battery backup for grid outages. During blackouts, solar batteries need to perform well to keep the lights on, the refrigerator running, and the sump pump working. Just like your cell phone or laptop battery, solar panel batteries slowly lose...
Solar energy systems with batteries have skyrocketed in popularity in the last decade. Lithium-ion batteries have increased in capabilities while prices have fallen. Solar battery storage offer greater resiliency during grid outages, especially in areas in Maine with an unstable electric grid. Whereas lithium-ion batteries have...
As concern about resiliency increases, demand for solar plus storage has increased in Maine. In fact, the recent extended power outage at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak has boosted interest in solar systems with batteries. With an unstable electric grid, Maine is a great...
Sundog Solar recently installed a solar system with battery backup for Jim and Paula on their Belfast house. Now, fourteen solar panels power the home, and an LG Chem battery provides electricity during grid outages. The couple experienced several blackouts in the fall and winter this year...
Chuck Piper, co-owner of Sundog Solar was recently interviewed by Earth911 about solar batteries. As the cost of batteries for solar energy drops and the capabilities increase, homeowners are increasingly looking to solar-plus-storage technologies for greater energy independence and resiliency. Natural disasters and extreme weather events...
Many homeowners in Maine want to get off the utility grid and become completely energy independent. An off-grid solar energy system with batteries is a great power solution for families that are not connected to the power grid. A new generation of battery technology is...
When Eric and Alison Rector learned last January that a “Bomb Cyclone” was blasting much of New England and pummeling the Maine coast, the couple was on vacation in Mexico. They soon discovered that many people in Maine were without power. Yet, Eric and Alison...