Hurricane Milton hit Tampa Bay as a category 3 hurricane. The storm surge and high winds caused widespread damage and casualties. The planet is heating rapidly, and the frequency and ferocity of storms will increase. But Milton is only a preview of what is to come.
What do you do if you want to live quietly off-grid in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but your home is located in an old-growth forest with tall incense cedar, pine, and sequoia trees?
Last Friday, we invited the best solar battery installation team in Northern California to YouSolar for pizza, beer, and a sneak preview of the Gen 3 PowerBloc. The two installers have been in the solar industry for 20 years. They have seen and installed every solar panel, inverter, and battery. And they loved the PowerBloc—every part of it.
YouSolar is among the top 15 companies that have raised the most money on StartEngine, which puts us into the “Most Momentum” category. That is fantastic; thank you, StartEngine community.
Less than a year ago, biblical downpours followed a historic drought in Southern Europe. Last week, parts of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria became a water world. The next once-in-500-year flood did not even let the year elapse.
In this campaign, YouSolar has successfully raised ¾ of a million dollars on StartEngine, contributing to our $3 ¼ million total. This achievement has positioned us among the Top 15 Most Funded Companies currently raising funds on the platform, a testament to our credibility and potential for growth.
This week, we received our first Gen 3 cabinet. And it is elegant and simple. The Gen 3 cabinet packs a lot of power and energy at seven feet. The two-cabinet PowerBloc® BASE™ has 70 kWh storage and 100 A of single- or three-phase power.
YouSolar’s CEO, Arnold Leitner, takes California’s Capitol Corridor train to work every day. The ride takes 80 minutes each way, 2 x 80 minutes of productive time, not driving time. However, the Capitol Corridor train operated by Amtrak is hardly clean. It is pulled by a diesel locomotive, but tracks can be electrified. In the Bay Area, Caltrain introduced its first electric train.
When an outage occurs, most residential batteries only last until the following day. Even then, they only back up critical loads. In contrast, the PowerBloc is a whole-home backup system that scales easily to meet modern homes' energy and power needs–even during extended, multi-day outages.
Four years ago, we began developing the first 100-volt rack-mounted battery. We only know of one other solar battery company with a 100-volt battery; everyone else uses 50-volt batteries. We did not stop at 100 Volts. Instead, we connected six of these 100 V batteries in services to create the BOOST™ Battery Stack that powers YouSolar’s 25-kilowatt inverter at 600 Volts.
