October

Funding Updates 

• • • • Sunrun Growth - In the month of September, Bright Planet was Sunrun's largest partner in number of sales and installs completed! Thank you all for your incredible work, we are fortunate to partner with the best sales organizations in the industry and are just getting started! 

      • New Loan Options - We continuously strive to offer the best financing solutions for both our partners and customers. Later this month we will see updates to our existing Sunlight loans, as well as rolling out a new loan option with Mosaic. More to come as details are finalized. A full list of loan options can be found (here). 

BPS Updates

• • • • Winter Incentive - Our largest expense at Bright Planet is in completing surveys, designs and permits that do not move forward and get installed. In an effort to get aligned with our partners, we are rolling out an incentive where we will guarantee $.10/w in commissions to help push lower margin deals to install. BPS DOES reserve the right to decline any job that does not make sense to install, but this will help free up a lot of deals that didn't make sense before. This incentive is eligible for any deal sold in the past and up to the end of the year, 12/31/2019. 

      • Drone Surveys - We were fortunate to connect with Loveland Innovations almost a year ago and implement a drone solution for our site surveys. We started with a small pilot program but have since rolled this out as our standard survey across all markets. The benefits have been enormous, capturing all accurate roof measurements and the most innovative shading analysis in a matter of minutes. More exciting news this week from UPS on the broader implementation of drone technology (news link here). 

Market Updates 

• • • • CA Customer Disclosure- Effective September 30th, the CPUC requires ALL California solar customers to receive and sign the California Solar Consumer Protection Guide (click here for link). Electronic signatures are allowed for both the initial and final signature page. 

      • Sunrun Portal Login Requirement- With the rollout of the CPUC, it is now REQUIRED for all reps selling Sunrun in CA to have an HIS license and be set up in Sunrun's portal. The following form can be used to request access: New User Form (Sunrun does require certification to be completed as well as an HIS license for CA).