Frequently Asked Questions
Who/What is Sol Systems?
Since 2008, Sol Systems has worked together with customers and partners to build, finance, and manage clean energy projects that enable our customers to take an active role in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable and equitable energy future for all. Check us out at www.solsystems.com.
How is Sol Systems different from other companies?
Sol Systems builds, owns, and operates renewable energy projects and works with Fortune 500 companies to meet their sustainability goals with a range of renewable energy products and services.
Sol Systems is also a pioneering company in renewable energy certificates. We work with national and local solar installers, as well as individual homeowners that install solar on their property. For these customers, we provide system registration services and renewable energy credit services. Specifically, we help ensure the owners of solar arrays receive payments for their renewable energy certificates, a vital source of financial support that encourages the growth of renewable energy.
Additionally, Sol Systems is an innovator in the renewable energy industry pairing community impact with renewable energy projects and products. To learn more about our impact efforts, please visit https://www.solsystems.com/impact/.
What is Sustainable Choice?
Sustainable Choice is the name of the customer account portal and new suite of renewable energy products offered by Sol Systems
Why Sustainable Choice?
Sol Systems’ mission is to build, finance, and manage clean energy projects and accelerate an equitable transition to a sustainable energy future. The acquisition of Arcadia members is part of our strategic effort to realize our mission. We are looking for partners like you that seek to join us in realizing the full potential of renewable energy.
Did you know that to address climate change the US set a goal to achieve 80% of our energy from renewable resources by 2035, but as of the beginning of 2023, only ~13% of the energy consumed in the US is from renewables?
Our nation requires a rapid expansion of renewable energy and collectively we need to bring every tool to bear that we can to stem the worst effects of climate change.
To that end, Sol Systems brings Sustainable Choice to grow renewables by unlocking the promise of renewable energy certificates.
How does Sustainable Choice work?
Renewable Energy Certificates, or RECs, are legal instruments used to track the production and delivery of renewable energy. Anytime you hear or read of your favorite company, brand, or organization using renewable energy they are in fact using RECs. In the US, you must purchase RECs to genuinely and authentically tout the use of renewable energy.
Beyond their legal role, RECs play a vital role in the development, growth, and longevity of renewable energy because RECs provide critical financial incentives to renewable energy projects, like solar, wind, and hydro.
When you enroll in Sustainable Choice, Sol Systems ensures that your estimated or actual energy usage is matched with renewable energy supply by purchasing RECs from wind, solar, and other renewable sources.
Matching your energy consumption with RECs, achieves several important outcomes. First, your REC purchase improves the economics of existing and future renewable energy projects. This in turn maintains the renewable energy we have today and spurs the development of more renewable energy. As more renewable energy is delivered to the grid over time, older sources of fossil fuel energy are pushed out. This results in a cleaner, lower carbon energy supply, an important part of mitigating climate change.