Good Sun’s co-founder, Eric Stikes is in his third year at Harvard's School of Extension Studies ALM program. In addition to researching sustainable solutions across both the built and natural environments, with specific attention to wildlife conservation, Stikes is investigating how the used solar market can help to reduce soft costs in the primary solar market.
Bringing costs down will help bring solar solutions within reach of the low-and-middle-income (LMI) classes. Stikes contends that LMI adoption of PV is crucial to bringing the market to index standardization and completing the transition of our energy economy away from fossil-fuels and into clean power.
Project status: Good Sun’s secondary market pilot project is in full operation. We are actively procuring used PV stock to reuse and resell, and we are tracking all sales and testing used solar panels in an effort to collect the data needed to verify a viable secondary market.
Project Details: Good Sun accept donations of used solar panels and balance of system materials. Some of this product goes directly to Good Sun solar installations. Other products are more appropriate for resale. We sell used equipment online on platforms such as Facebook, Craigslist, and here on our website. The money raised goes to support our operations and projects, like our upcoming Grass Valley Charter School PV Install.
Project Timeline: Good Sun's pilot program and Stikes' Harvard research study are expected to be complete by the end of 2020.
Bringing costs down will help bring solar solutions within reach of the low-and-middle-income (LMI) classes. Stikes contends that LMI adoption of PV is crucial to bringing the market to index standardization and completing the transition of our energy economy away from fossil-fuels and into clean power.
Project status: Good Sun’s secondary market pilot project is in full operation. We are actively procuring used PV stock to reuse and resell, and we are tracking all sales and testing used solar panels in an effort to collect the data needed to verify a viable secondary market.
Project Details: Good Sun accept donations of used solar panels and balance of system materials. Some of this product goes directly to Good Sun solar installations. Other products are more appropriate for resale. We sell used equipment online on platforms such as Facebook, Craigslist, and here on our website. The money raised goes to support our operations and projects, like our upcoming Grass Valley Charter School PV Install.
Project Timeline: Good Sun's pilot program and Stikes' Harvard research study are expected to be complete by the end of 2020.
Location
California and Massachusetts, USA.
Contact
Eric Stikes, Good Sun – [email protected]