Some companies provide “information,” and others make “stuff.” Looking at the S&P 500, only seven companies that provide information account for nearly ⅓ of the market capitalization of all 500 companies in the index.
Monterey County lies an hour’s drive south of the San Francisco Bay Area and according to some, it is the Most Gorgeous Place in America. It is home to Big Sur, one of the world’s most iconic coastlines, as well as Pebble Beach, famous for its coastal golf courses.
The big storm that hit California and the Pacific Northwest this past weekend has left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. Three of YouSolar’s customers who lost utility power late afternoon yesterday are now living their lives independently – of utility power. In fact, these customers did not even notice that the grid went out.
We did it again! Our StartEngine campaign has raised $500,000, bringing the total amount of funds raised on StartEngine since our first campaign in 2020 to over $3 million.
Peterborough, Canada, is a quaint little town of 85,000 in Ontario, Canada, home to a college and The Canadian Canoe Museum. It is also home to several toy shops, including, well, The Toy Shop. The store is filled floor-to-ceiling with toys. Toys everywhere. Toys galore. You would conclude that Peterborough is bustling with kids.
YouSolar’s byline is “Power Your Life. Independently.” We take that very seriously. If we promise customers an independent power system, it better be independent. Independent of utility power, independent of the time of day, and independent of temperature.
The STEP™ Micro-Converter is a panel-level DC-DC micro-converter that steps up each solar panel’s potential to the 380 V DC High Potential Direct Current (“HVDC”) bus of the PowerBloc® nanogrid. The STEP micro-converter is an integral part of the PowerBloc and provides unprecedented performance for solar arrays.
For our customers, YouSolar designs the solar array's size, location, and orientation and specifies the solar panel power. We also provide the panel-level STEP™ Micro-converter, which is integral to the performance of the PowerBloc, but we do not recommend a particular panel or install the solar array.
Recent data shows that Greenland has been losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, 20% higher than thought. The ice loss in Greenland is equivalent to the volume of the Empire State Building turning into a lake every two minutes.
In our recent update, “The Duck Becomes a Swan,” we noted, "The problem with solar is that there can be too much of the good stuff when no one needs it and too little or none when power is in high demand.” Utilities in California have pushed back on the state's solar incentives. Since April of 2023, utilities only have to pay for solar fed into the grid what it is worth in the wholesale power markets. When solar arrays are cranking at noon, that is next to nothing.
