Occidental Power Solar & Energy Storage: In the News
Occidental Power Solar and Energy Storage featured in news stories and television before solar power became a household word.
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Occidental Power protests CPUC policy changes
Occidental Power staff with Monopoly mascot on front steps of California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to protest PG&E rate hikes and their decision to discontinue discounted rates for solar owners feeding power back to the utility grid.
NBC BAY AREA Groups protest PG&E rate hike in San Francisco October 2021
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Proud member of the CALSSA President's Circle
California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) promotes the widespread deployment of smart, local, clean energy technologies while supporting a wide variety of businesses that everyday build a better energy future in urban and rural communities and neighborhoods throughout the state. Occidental Power is proud to be a member.
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Visionary Homeowner Launched a Power Revolution
Remembering the first net energy metering system in San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Times Castro Home Sparks Solar Revolution
October 2019
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Teaching independent solar energy processes in Bangalore
President and GM, Greg Kennedy joins Enerplus’ Expert Club in Bangalore, India, to teach the solar energy process. The Expert Club Buzz! Our Expert Club Trainer commissions project in San Francisco
March 2013
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Mayor Lee Announces Full Funding for GoSolarSF Program
Mayor Ed Lee announced full funding for the GoSolarSF program. Several long-term staff came from this training program.
California Newswire, March 2013 SF Mayor Lee Announces Full Funding for GoSolarSF Program: Two Million Dollars for Solar for Fiscal Year 2013-2014
March 2013
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San Francisco's Favorite Hardware Store Re-COLE-mends Occidental Power — Meet Greg: Our Solar Energy Expert
Cole Hardware recommended Occidental Power as their local solar contractor. The article features Greg’s young family, now adults and all working for Occidental Power.
July 2010
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Entrepreneur Profile: Greg Kennedy
San Francisco Business Times profiles Occidental Power owner, founder and general manager, Greg Kennedy.
San Francisco Business Times: Entrepreneur Profile: Greg Kennedy
July 2007
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Solar rises over Fog City
Solar panels are now so efficient that fog no longer mandates remaining on the grid.
SFGate: Solar rises over Fog City
April 2007
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Glissade Snowboards Becomes PGE’s 10,000th Solar Customer
Occidental Power installed the first and the 10,000th solar installations in Northern California, nine years after we installed the first net-metered solar electric system in the San Francisco Bay Area.
glissadesnowboards: Glissade Headquarters Goes Solar
February 2006
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The Rosebud Agency in San Francisco Is First Music Industry Facility to Convert to 100% Solar Power
The historical Rosebud Agency led the way in pursuing environmentally responsible solutions, installing solar panels that power their offices. It was Occidental Power’s first commercial solar photovoltaic installation.
December 2000
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First solar net metering in San Francisco
Occidental Power designs, builds, and figures out the permitting and regulations for the first net-metered solar installation in San Francisco, the Bay Area and one of the nation’s first of its kind. The home is located in Noe Valley, San Francisco.
Northern California Sun magazine 1997
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Seeing the Light
The front cover of the San Francisco Examiner Business section features the first net-metered solar electric installation for a home in San Francisco on Fair Oaks St. The Associate Press picked up the story and it appeared in newspapers across the country.
San Francisco Examiner Business section 1997
Occidental Power Talks Solar with Norway’s Television Public Broadcasting Station
Owner and General Manager of Occidental Power talks solar with Norwegian Reporter, Gro Holm and visits a San Francisco resident whose home is solar powered. The reporter also visits CEO of a company that has a field of solar installations in the California desert.
Norwegian Television Public Broadcasting Company February 2017
Three Bay Area Residents Living Off the Grid
In 2001, a look at how a few Bay Area homeowners are saving energy and money in varying ways including solar electricity. Presented on KTVU Channel 2 News with Anchor Diane Dwyer and Reporter Bob McKenzie.
KTVU 2 10 O'Clock News, February 2001
San Francisco Plans to Go Solar on All City Buildings
NBC 11 Bay Area News reporter, Sandra Stricker reports on Gretchen Cotter testifying at a public hearing on why San Francisco should go solar on all city buildings.
NBC News Channel 11, November 2001
Land Rover vs. the Prius: Charles Gibson Takes Global Warming Discussion to SF Residents
Occidental Power's client, Peter Boyer, on World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, talking about his SunPower system
ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, May 2007
Standout Outdoor and Occidental Power Partner Up to Create the First Solar-Powered Billboard in San Francisco.
Standout Outdoor and Occidental Power partner to create the first solar billboard in San Francisco.
December 2009
Prop B Allows San Francisco to Buy $100 Milliion of Renewable Energy
In 2001, ABC 7 News Reporter, Heather Ishimaru reports on Proposition B, which allows the city to issue a $100 million revenue bond to finance solar projects for city- and county-owned buildings and capture wind power elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay area.
ABC 7 News, November 2001
Public Health & Environment Committee Public Hearing Item 2: Green Initiative
Founder and General Manager of Occidental Power, Greg Kennedy testifies at a public hearing to San Francisco Supervisor Michael Yaki about why the future of San Francisco should include supporting solar thermal and introducing solar electricity.
Public Hearing May 2000
Rainbow Grocery Installs 10kW Solar Electric System
Rainbow Grocery, a worker-owned organic grocery, and Occidental Power, the leading installer of solar electric and solar thermal products in San Francisco, have teamed up to create one of the largest commercially owned solar electric systems in San Francisco.
NBC News Channel 11, January 2003
San Francisco Pushing for Solar
Homeowner and solar power advocate, Gretchen Cotter is featured in this report by Wayne Friedman of ABC 7 News.
ABC 7 News, November 2001
Solar Program Lights Up Lives
ABC 7 News, Carolyn Tyler reports on a program supported by the agency Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates featuring two trainees who work at Occidental Power today.
ABC 7 News, November 1994