In the past we’ve blogged about our Solar Install and today we’d like to do a quick update on the our solar panels.

As most of our clients know, our sister company ValueSolar.com provides excellent quality Mitsubishi panels at a reasonable price. They do nationwide installations and no job is too small (residential, commercial, anything solar). Right now, they are working on a 22,000 solar panel installation at some college. I’ll be sure to post some pictures on that once they’re done.

We’ve been putting off our updates mostly because we were waiting for our entire set to be installed. But unfortunately, we’re still waiting on permits for the freeway panel set from the City of Pomona.

Which brings up another point…wouldn’t city governments embrace cleaner electricity? Everybody says they are interested in cleaning up our environment but fail to act upon it. We are the first solar powered business in the City of Pomona but yet, our permits for our set of additional panels have been in for months now.

But this is not to fault the city, we understand there are many concerns involved such as safety. Yet, we only wished that more governments would give a little extra effort towards environmentally friendly endeavors. We’re not asking for any breaks, just a little expediency would be nice because the longer we wait, the more pollution we’re putting into the air. That said, we’ve worked with very nice people in the city office.

Everybody likes to see pictures so let’s have some pictures shall we? Here’s a closeup of what a panel looks like. It’s been raining for over a week now with thunderstorms and things so please excuse our clouds in the picture. We’ll try to go up and take some sunny day pictures one of these days.

We use lead free panels made by Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi leads the way in solar technology due to their high efficiency rating and lead free manufacturing process. What’s the point of using Solar if you’re dumping lead back into the environment…that’s the reason why we’re so high on these Mitsubishi panels.

We have panels spread out across our roof; mostly in cells where we can manage them. Also, we have to still leave room to maneuver around the roof. Stepping ever so slightly on a panel will break it.

Here’s some on our East wing:

And some on our West Wing (sounds like that TV Show). Sorry for the mess, our roof is littered with AC units, pipes, conduits and all kinds of things that go bump in the night.

And as we blogged before, we’re still waiting for our permits to put up panels on our south facing side. This rail is just waiting to be filled up with solar panels and runs the length of our building and then some. We can’t wait to put up a Freeway cam powered on Solar Energy…I think it would the first of its kind. We get excellent views of the 10 freeway (east and west), and the 57 / 210 / 10 freeway interchange.

That’s it for now, in our next installment, we’ll have more details on our SolarCam (we hope). And if you work in the City of Pomona government office, please go hit up the building inspector and ask him to approve our freeway solar panel permits, pretty please with sugar on top