Dandelion Energy

“It's true that having a model where you're insourcing the labor is more capital intensive, but the economics of each install were also much better. So it ended up being a financial net positive for the company, even though it did require us to, yeah, raise the…”

“We've imported most of that back to the United States and really adopted the same rigs they use over there.”

“In terms of our wait times, they've varied at our worst. We forced our customers to wait over a year in some markets because we had so much demand, but now we've managed to bring it down. It's more like four months, so we've made a lot of progress there.”

“And for geothermal heat pumps, it involved things like drilling deep holes in homeowners yards, It was operationally intensive, and I should also mention you didn't need a billion dollars up front to get started. It was the type of problem that seems like it w…”

“We launched with a financing option. So from the beginning, homeowners that signed up with us Would come out ahead. Like, you could come out cash flow positive against fuel oil”

“So to give one example, only 18 months ago we had two drilling rigs of Standaline, just small rigs that we've Adapted to be optimized for geothermal in small suburban residential yards. So we went from having two to now we have 14 running full time”

“When I was first pitching the company with our initial seed round, and I would pitch to venture investors in Silicon Valley, I didn't get a lot of traction. When I would go to New York or Massachusetts-based investors, that ended up, those were the investors t…”

“One of our investors in our most recent rounds, Lenar, the home builder, we're really interested in starting to get into new, new homes, new construction.”

“Many homeowners in the northeast today that decide to get an air source heat pump use a fossil-fueled system for backup, and that allows them to Make sure they have enough heating on the coldest day and, you know, with our customers, none of them have a, you d…”

“Yes, that was the typical price of Gio, actually quite a bit higher than that in the markets in New York that we started in.”