Yvonne Griffin
Metamora, MI (USA)
Role(s):
Other
Urban Solar
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Location:
Metamora
Industry:
Energy
Year Founded:
2012
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Creation/Idea
Entity Type:
Limited Liability Company
Description:
The Company provides solar systems design and installations, Metal roof installation, maintenance, inspection and repair services to building/home owners and property managers. All of the services by the Company will be rendered on site.
The positive aspects of operating in this business:
State and local ordinances demand that building owners inspect and maintain their roofing systems on a regular basis.
The SOM offers incentives for commercial business to upgrade their systems to a more energy efficient system, allowing cash and tax incentives for alternative energy products to be installed to reduce the company’s energy usage.
This will help the Urban Solar maintain normal business operations regardless of the overall economic climate.
The Company will specialize in engaging large roof installations into new and old buildings. This will be the largest business segment of the Company. Management has developed an extensive pricing model that will allow the business to profit from all aspects of these jobs. Gross profits will be accrued through the sale of labor and consultation services and form the sale of direct job materials. Management anticipates that it will generate extremely high gross margins from these services. The Company will employ its workforce in-house, and will not outsource these jobs to subcontractors.
Roofing Maintenance and Inspection
Urban Solar will also generate revenue from ongoing maintenance and repair fees from its installations of solar roofing systems. This revenue will allow the Company to remain profitable regardless of the overall economic climate. As stated before, there are mandatory state and local ordinances that require building and home owners to have regular inspections and maintenance of their roofs. By virtue of the law, the market will always provide a steady income stream to market agent.
Energy Efficient Solar Systems
Urban Solar products and services are superior to our competitors because we offer each customer specialized services based upon their needs. Urban Solar builds, sell and install superior products made by a local manufacture that guarantees their product with an industry extreme warranty for thier metal roofing of 50 years, one of the best manufactures warranty in the business, and 25 years for thier solar cells.
• It is our passion to share our knowledge of alternative green and energy products with our customers, so they have a complete decision making ability based upon their roofing and energy needs and income. Whether it is through the installing of Solar cells or green roofing products such as metal roofing systems.
• We enhance our products to outshine our competition by building a unique system for each customer. At first glance you may think a Urban Solar system is just another Solar product, but the effort we take to build each individual relationship with our manufactures and building partnerships allows us to bring a superior product tailored for each customer, and their needs. We then take theses relationship benefits that give us the experience, expertise and unique design traits that go into every system and apply them on an individual customer needs basis. This truly set it apart from other competitors.
• Because we care about more than just the product but the satisfaction of each customers relationship with their new energy system. The owners are trained on use of a system monitoring program that can be tracked online by the customer and monitored for efficiency by our team of expert for a monthly service fee. Each customer will also have from the monitoring systems manufacturing online and telephone support. This allows us to work with the home owner to ensure the best results and maintenance of their new system and generate a residual income from our customer base.