Today’s Solutions: November 26, 2024

Hurricane Florence, the wettest tropical cyclone on record, left a trail of destruction within the Carolinas. This is obviously terrible news, but there is one positive we can take from this: most rooftop solar panel systems stayed intact and kept producing power after the storm, signifying that solar is more endurable to the forces of nature then we may have thought. According to one solar company in the Carolinas, only six out of 800 customers reported there was a problem with their system.

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