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In Short: EV owners see a 30 to 50 percent spike in electricity usage after charging, but a single NEM expansion kit can offset roughly half that extra draw, bringing your true up bill back in line. You bought solar. You saved money. Life was good. Then you bought an electric vehicle. The first true up bill after getting an EV hits different. Suddenly that $0 charge is a $200 bill, or $400, or worse depending on your utility and driving habits. The solar system that perfec

In Short: Adding a small amount of solar through a traditional rooftop installation is expensive because the fixed costs of permitting, labor, and equipment don't scale down for small jobs. Plug in solar expansion kits offer a new category of solution that fills this gap. Your rooftop solar system is doing its job. But maybe your electricity usage has grown. An EV, a home office, a pool pump, a growing family. Your true up bill is creeping up and you're wondering whether y

NEM GO ships free statewide at $1,799. NEM Pro offers more power locally starting at $2,148. Here is how to choose the right solar expansion kit for your California home.

In just 3 months, Bright Saver has gone from a visionary idea to actually serving dozens of households in the California Bay Area.

Featured on ABC7 News as part of their AANHPI Heritage Month segment.

While millions of Europeans are embracing affordable plug-in solar, the U.S. has lagged behind — until now.

When markets fail, it's often because someone's rigged the rules.

Record-breaking temps are pushing our grid to the edge. People need AC to stay safe.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the latest Senate bill — which will slap new taxes on solar and wind projects while handing out more subsidies to oil, gas, and coal companies.

Vintage clothes, mostly pulled from the free box at my co-op. I wrote all my first drafts long-hand.

That sentence would've sounded like science fiction just a year ago.

Claire Brown's piece tells the story of something that still feels impossible to most people: plugging a solar panel into the wall and watching your meter spin backwards.

The story? How plug-in balcony solar is giving power back to renters, apartment dwellers, and anyone without the perfect roof for traditional solar.

Their new piece captures something I see every day at Bright Saver: more and more people know energy affordability can't wait for government or utilities to fix it.

They put a spotlight on Bright Saver and our people's solar vision.

It's such a simple idea that sometimes I forget how new it still feels to most people.

Not because it explained plug-in solar. It was because of what Assemblymember Emily Gallagher said about the new New York bill we worked on with her at Bright Saver.

Yesterday, Bright Saver showed up on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle's print edition. Not buried online. Not a small mention. Right there.

For the first half of my career, I built things mostly from behind a computer screen. Now my days look different.

California isn't just where I work. It's home. I was born here. I grew up in public schools here.