Solar’s Smart

Escondido, United States

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Description

Specialties

Solar’s Smart has a long design and build history in San Diego with over 200 systems designed and built by Mark Miller, one of the principles along with Dave Moore.

The firm specializes in architecturally aesthetic arrays on Solar Ramada’s and Solar Pergolas that are supported with a variety of either Roman Tuscan style columns, carved wood columns and stone columns that not only set the tone of your outside living space, providing shade and subtle spaces in the outdoors.

The firm’s principles have a history of installation with roof mounted systems, as well as over 200,000 solar modules in Utility Scale Solar Farms. They bring their utility scale experience and discipline, and general contractors discipline to their architectural solar settings, along with the larger scale capable in these settings that are easily capable of satisfying larger estate sized homes that are 3000 Sq Ft and greater, where roof space is constrained due to firefighter access setbacks or architectural roofs that are very faceted with dormers and hips and lack the sufficient roof planes for the required array size.

History

Established in 2006.

Solar’s Smart is a licensed General Contracting firm and licensed Solar Specialist which has been licensed in California since 2006. The firm specialized in passive designed solar residences in the central highlands of Arizona, California & the coast of Baja California. In 2010, as the economics of Solar PV started changing drastically the firm’s principles provided services to large solar developers like SunEdison in Arizona on large Utility Scale Solar Farms for municipal (Prescott & Prescott Valley, AZ) and large utility clients (APS).

The firm started focusing on the San Diego residential market in 2012 by providing solar residential rooftop design and installation services to over 200 customers as a subcontractor. During this time the principles were certified by the North American Board Certified Energy Practitioners association (NABCEP) as Professional Installers: nab​cep​.org/​c​e​r​t​i​f​i​e​d​-​i​n​s​t​a​l​l​e​r​-​l​o​c​a​t​o​r​?​i​n​s​t​a​l​l​e​r​_​n​a​m​e​=​m​a​r​k​+​m​iller.

Meet the Business Owner

Mark M.

Business Owner

Mr Miller is a pragmatic technologist and general contractor that is bring the rapidly changing energy technology and building envelope science world into focus by designing Net Zero homes that produce more energy that they consume. His technology background (Chief Technology Officer for 3 successful San Diego tech firms) and experience in the rooftop solar market formed the genesis for the firms Solar Ramada product.

The Solar Ramada product has its roots in the great San Diego Architectural history of Irving J Gill and Lillian Rice use of Pergolas and Ramada’s which the firm is re-​purposing to support Solar Arrays for clients who don’t like the look of modules on the roof, or for large houses that don’t have the space on the roof.

The firm is also currently designing Net Zero, solar powered residences in Arizona which will utilize the latest solar and building envelope technology to create comfortable, utility-​bill free environments for their forward thinking customers.