Wow! Dual Inverters! Largest Residential PowerBloc Installed
Last week, YouSolar installed its largest residential PowerBloc® yet. It will power a gorgeous new home in Calistoga, CA. It has 11.1 kW solar, 51 kWh of energy storage, and dual 18 kW inverters for 36 kW of AC power to the house. This PowerBloc features our all-new PowerLink™ Module, which allows controlling and reading data from multiple inverters and transfer switches. ...
Team Member Profile: Bob Rutter, a CTO Who Wants to Fly
Bob Rutter is YouSolar’s Chief Technology Officer and a member of our board of directors. Three things are non-negotiable in Bob's life: Lunch, flying to lunch every other week, and elegant and safe electronics. Watching Bob work on the PowerBloc is to watch playfulness and perfection ...
Big Dreams in Big Sur: The Original PowerBloc® and New Customers
Skills and knowledge are essential, but you also need imagination to create a new product. You have to dream – and dream big. We were dreaming big when we built the first PowerBloc in Big Sur in the summer of 2019. When we launched our first crowdfunding campaign in 2020, you believed in our dream. Our campaign reached $ 1 million and was oversubscribed. ...
Everybody Welcomes More Power: Introducing POWER-LINK™
On Friday, we introduced the new POWER-LINK™ module. What is POWER-LINK, and why is it another big step for YouSolar? As you may recall, all modules or bloc's in the PowerBloc connect in parallel. Therefore, you can add modules just like LEGO blocks. You can add more batteries or more solar power, for example. Now you can also add more than one inverter. ...
Founder Profile: Dr. Arnold Leitner
YouSolar Founder and CEO, Arnold Leitner volunteered in wildlife conservation as a teenager, working with many species, including peregrine falcons and amphibians. He designed one of Germany’s first super-efficient passive houses, which his family built in 1991. Arnold later moved to the United States to get his doctorate in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During his experimental research ...
Wildfires and “Public Service Power Shutdowns” Fuel YouSolar’s Business
YouSolar’s PowerBloc®️ solar+battery is high power and also allows for easy integration of a generator. Battery solutions by Tesla, Sonnen, or Enphase are not powerful enough or cannot integrate a generator. Thus, the PowerBloc®️ is the preferred and often the only choice for customers in California and beyond
Customer Interview with Lee Klinger, Ph.D., Arborist, Big Sur, CA
Lee Klinger, Ph.D., is an arborist specializing in forest restoration. Lee lives in an off-grid house on California’s Big Sur coast. YouSolar sat down with Lee and asked him about his experience with the PowerBloc®️ solar+battery systems.
Meet SPOT™. YouSolar’s Global Real Time Solar Irradiance with Terrain Shading
YouSolar has developed its own historical and real-time solar irradiance data service, SPOT™, that has global coverage and includes terrain shading. SPOT™ accesses historical and real-time meteorological and terrain data from international satellites to create a location-specific historical data set and real-time forecast.
Big Sur Solar + Battery + Generator Nano-Grid
22 September 2019 - YouSolar installed a PowerBloc®️ solar+batterynano-grid at an off-grid house located on one of the most spectacular sections of the Big Sur Coast, California. The home is perched on a bluff between Highway 1 and the ocean with breathtaking views. The house is part of a small cluster of houses, all of which have no utility power. The primary energy source is solar, but a small propane-powered generator seamlessly integrates for complete reliability. The system is fully automated. YouSolar delivered the system as a turn-key solution.
GreenSchool Bali Expands Solar Array
11 March 2018. YouSolar is helping the GreenSchool Bali to expand its solar array which will make the school even greener. Last year, YouSolar and its partners donated a 6 kW solar array to the GreenSchool. The implementation of the project was.
