The future of the solar-plus-storage industry will look like the air conditioning business
The solar industry will evolve from component brands to system brands and service, according to Barry Cinnamon in this industry perspective.
Transitioning Silicon Valley residential PV to solar-plus-storage: optimizers or microinverters?
Barry Cinnamon, a Silicon Valley solar installer, details the transition to energy storage, profiles early solar adopters and notes the challenges of getting to 200-amp residential service.
Installing residential solar and storage in Silicon Valley
“I kind of compliment PG&E because they’re our best marketing department when it comes to battery storage,” says Barry Cinnamon of Cinnamon Energy Systems in the first part of our interview.
The cost question: Barry Cinnamon on Tesla’s Solar Roof
Like everything Elon Musk does, the unveiling of Tesla’s Solar Roof was accompanied by no shortage of fanfare. But will this latest product be a success in the market, when solar shingles have proved so difficult for other companies? pv magazine spoke with solar industry veteran Barry Cinnamon of Spice Solar about the promise and challenges of Tesla’s Solar Roof.
