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Kann: Third-party financing triggered the late-2000s residential solar market inflection
“What caused the Inflection for residential solar in the late 2000, which is really when the market started to take off was financing. It was when solar city and sun run and sungevity and all these companies introduced the like PPA and lease model.”
Kann: Solar companies abandoned efficiency retrofits due to high sales friction
“In the early days of rooftop solar, some of those companies, SolarCity being an example, you know, dabbled in like, oh, maybe we should do an energy efficiency retrofit at the same time that we do rooftop solar. They all backed away from that, because it ended…”
Kann: Sunrun became the leading US residential solar company by acquiring Vivint
“Sunrun is far and away the leading residential solar company in the country these days, having surpassed the empty shell formerly known as SolarCity a few years ago, and having acquired its next biggest competitor, Vivint Solar, more recently.”