My name is Evan Leonard and I’m Vice-President of Artisan Electric and today I’m going to talk about the process of going solar with Artisan. When you first contact Artisan we’ll ask for some basic information that we use to create your preliminary proposal. So, when we come out to do a site assessment, we’ll come out with that proposal and go through it with you step-by-step.

The preliminary proposal models different system types for you and goes through the module type, pricing, kilowatt hour production, general payback and we also go through in detail the incentives that are available to you in Washington State. Also, while on site, we’ll look at your sun access. We’ll take measurements on your roof. We’ll look at your electrical system and look at your usage and we’ll take that information and email you an adjusted proposal that looks very similar to the preliminary proposal, it’s just with adjusted numbers. So, when you decide upon a system, we’ll send you a contract and the contract will go through the price, the scope of work, the estimated installation date and it also goes into detail about our 5-year production guarantee.

Usually, installation takes two to three days depending upon the size of the system and the difficulty. Once we’re done, we’ll go through all the paperwork with you and make sure everything is finalized. We’ll get you through inspection and then we’ll schedule an exit interview. Myself or one of my colleagues will come out and walk you through the system. We’ll walk you through how the system works. We’ll look at your monitoring system. We’ll answer any questions you might have.

Artisan has some of the best follow-up in the industry. We’ll schedule a one-year check-up where we come out with your actual production for the last year and we’ll measure it against what our predictions were and see how you did. If you didn’t hit the numbers we said you’d hit, we actually pay you the difference in both net metering and in the production incentive, so you can’t lose.