by Connor English | Jan 28, 2020 | Company Updates, Learning, Solar News
What’s new? PVBid has joined our Predictive Pricing engine with the power of HelioScope, the industry’s best design & sales software. Cool! What does that mean? Fast, tailored, and accurate pricing. An indicative project can be created in under a minute....
by Connor English | Aug 28, 2019 | Learning, Solar News
As an estimator, there are several nuances to every solar system that are hard to pin down. That’s where the art of estimating comes into play. These nuances range from wiring best practices to how much a subcontractor will really cost to racking for the...
by Connor English | Oct 5, 2018 | Learning
As Solar Power International approached, travel was on my mind. Setting up travel plans led me to thinking about the day-to-day accounting of travel for solar contractors. Interestingly enough, travel has also come up with a majority of my Estimating as a Services...
by Connor English | Mar 13, 2018 | Learning
Three months in and the solar coaster is starting to pick up. The 2017Q4 SEIA Market Insight Report came out in mid December and I picked it up again to review. There, in all its glory, was a chart that exemplifies the solar growth we see throughout the year....
by Connor English | Mar 6, 2018 | Learning
Well, we’re a month into the new year! Here at PVBid, we’ve started the year off really well. Our Estimating Service has been a huge hit – we even have clients who are partnering with us as their only estimators. The software is developing in awesome ways and...
by Connor English | Dec 3, 2017 | Learning
It seems like every few years there is some new module crisis on this ride we call the Solarcoaster (think the current Suniva case, or the anti-dumping case from 2014, or sillicon shortage of 2005 and many more). The biggest challenge is how to handle selling to the...
