Urban Ore Solar Installation
Berkeley, California
We are excited when a fellow eco-conscious enterprise reaches out. So, our team was delighted to hear from Urban Ore. They are on a mission to “End the Age of Waste” by recycling and salvaging everything from construction materials and appliances to furniture and clothes.
Urban Ore’s 30,000-sq-ft building with a flat roof made it ideal for a solar installation. Their operation uses about 120,000 KWh of electricity per year costing them $28,000 annually.
The system we mounted to their roof reduced their energy costs by 99% – that’s just $28 a month! And this is just phase one of the installation.
Urban Ore plans to add a battery system that will ensure their critical systems (lighting, point of sale equipment and internet for credit card transactions) stay up even when the grid goes down.
System Stats
- N67KW of Solar
- N100% Clean Solar Energy
- N99% Reduction in Electricity Costs
- NInstallation pays for itself in 4 years
“Symmetric Energy put 265 solar collectors on our roof to ensure that Urban Ore is truly working to end the age of waste. The whole array only takes up about a third of the roof and will pay for itself in a few years. Solar is truly the future.”
— Dan K., Urban Ore