Solar, storage and standby power built for 115-degree summers.

We had three companies out before JJ Energy Inc. and every one of them handed us a number within twenty minutes of walking in the door. Priya asked for a year of bills first, came back with a model that showed our summer peak was the whole problem, and recommended a smaller array with a battery instead of the enormous system the others wanted to sell us. That was a cheaper job for them and it was the right call. Our July bill went from four hundred and twelve dollars to thirty-one.

The generator paid for itself in one afternoon. We lost power for nine hours during a wind event in February and the restaurant never closed. Two blocks of Highway 111 were dark and we were serving dinner. Tomás had walked our chef through the transfer sequence at commissioning, so when it happened nobody panicked. They also spotted that our walk-in was on the wrong side of the transfer switch and fixed it before we ever needed it.

Our original installer went out of business in 2021 and we spent two years being told by everyone else that they could not touch someone else’s system. Curtis took it on, found two failed optimisers and a string that had never been commissioned properly, and got us back to full production. He also went through the manufacturer warranty and found that the modules were still covered. We are now on their annual maintenance plan and I wish we had started there.

They put a carport array across our staff parking and shifted our demand peak with a battery. Marcus pulled our fifteen-minute interval data and showed us that two pieces of equipment starting together at 2pm were setting our demand charge for the entire month. We changed the sequencing and installed storage, and the demand line on our bill dropped by a third before the panels produced a single kilowatt-hour. That was advice, not a sale.