Now you can buy solar power (of a sort) at Best Buy
Of all the things you can put in your cart at Best Buy, you probably didn’t think solar power for your home was one of them.
But that’s exactly what SolarCity CEO, Lyndon Rive, hopes you’ll do. His company just announced a partnership with Best Buy that he hopes will jump start the use of solar energy to power residential homes.
But Rive says this program isn’t just about buying the panels: “We install the equipment, we then sell you the electrons from the solar system.”
Most consumers say, from a poll the company conducted earlier this year that going green isn’t as important as paying less. Rive says he thinks customers will pay 10 to 12 percent less for their power than what they’d pay their utility company.
Rive says he thinks Best Buy is the best place to sell solar panels.
“When you go to Best Buy, the majority of the products you’re buying consume electricity. And what better to have a product to address that energy consumption with solar?”
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