Services We Offer

Installations: We offer turnkey, custom designed installations of solar technologies for residential, commercial, or agricultural customers. Each installation will be treated as unique, and we promise to take a “consultative approach” to guide and assist you through all aspects of your purchase experience.

The decision to purchase a solar power system is a big one, and our approach will be to help you understand the various options, the pros and cons of various hardware or configurations, and help you reach a decision that is right for you.

Right for you means that the system meets your financial constraints and that you fully understand the performance you can expect from your new system. Right for you also means that you fully understand the financial incentives available to you, when you will receive them, and that you are aware of how to file for, and receive those incentives.

For a typical residential installation our approach would include the following steps

1. Initial contact where we discuss your power requirements, expectations, financial questions, and an overview of the site you plan to use for the installation.
   
   
2. If the above seems right we then schedule a site survey where we do an in-depth evaluation of your site to include issues like orientation of installation site ( hopefully facing south), shading issues if any, overall roof condition, height and pitch, existing electrical service, and many other physical and technical issues that will impact your installation. This is a multi-step process and will take several hours to complete.
   
   
3. Based on 1 and 2 above, we will then prepare for you a detailed proposal covering all aspects on your installation to include deliverables, proposed schedule, total price, payment schedule and warranty information.
   
   
4. If after reviewing the quote, and getting answers to any and all questions, you decide to purchase the system, we proceed to design and engineering, finalizing the bill of materials, pulling all necessary permits and making arrangements to have all materials on the job site before the promised start date.
   
   
5. Installations will be performed using industry best practices and in full compliance with all applicable codes. Your installation will be inspected as required, and Commissioned in accordance with local guidelines.
   
   
6. After acceptance, we will schedule a 45 day follow up with you to make sure your system is performing as expected and to address any questions or concerns you may have.

 

Consulting Services: Although we take a “consultative approach” in working with customer on systems we sell and install, we also offer traditional consulting services to clients that are considering solar energy projects. In this case, we would obviously be recused from bidding on the contract.

Many local, state and federal agencies or departments are deploying solar technologies. Recently, many corporations have announced plans to transition to renewable energy sources. Contracting officials are often in need of independent technical and project management assistance in preparing bids, evaluating responses, or in managing the overall installation process.

Milestone Solar Consultants stands ready to help you in any and all aspects of your solar energy project. Our PMI certified project managers can act as your agent to assist in developing project packages that might include Risk Management Plans, Communications Plans, confirming deliverables or briefings to stakeholders.

Our founder, Bill Anderson, PMP, is a certified project manager, licensed General Contractor and formally a certified Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) while employed in the federal government. In recent years Mr. Anderson also acted as a lead project manager and System Integrator (SI) for a large technology company, deploying VOIP services to nearly a million customers in the Chicago market area. We know how to manage very large, technically complex and expensive projects.

Please contact us to discuss you consulting requirements.