Happy Thursday, Solar Warrior!

How did one of the solar industry’s true pioneers take everything he’s learned about solar in the last 20 years and make it Free and open-sourced to the world?

Andrew Birch, Co-Founder of the first company to deliver online solar designs, tells us what his research suggests is the answer to scaling solar by 30% per year through 2050 to address climate change.

The 1st barrier - permitting.
The 2nd barrier - need to add 10M people to the industry in the next 10 years.

The question is - How could you possibly scale? The solution is a complete end-to-end software solution that wraps CRM, proposals, and financing together, but it’s not just software.

Andrew is bringing in service providers to exhibit products, and essentially pulls everything into a single place. He makes that bundle white labeled to installers, as well as accessible and online and completely free.

That’s Open Solar, but there’s so much to Birchy’s story.

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Resources

Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn

Check out the work of OpenSolar on LinkedIn and their website

Read:

Ten Lessons I learned from Peter Drucker, by Jim Collins

OpenSolar’s Solar Touch 3D

Books mentioned