{"id":516523,"date":"2010-04-05T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2010-04-05T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T21:23:14","slug":"calfinders-referrals-for-independent-solar-contractors-hits-10-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516523","title":{"rendered":"Calfinders Referrals for Independent Solar Contractors Hits 10 Thousand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/solar_weeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7968\" title=\"solar_weeds\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/solar_weeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHalf of getting solar to crank out some juice for your home is just getting it up on your roof; which is a construction job for a  contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Which to choose, and why? A great place to  start is the Bay Area&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/solar.calfinder.com\/\" >Calfinder<\/a>, that refers contractors nationwide for solar photovoltaic or  solar hot water system installations.<\/p>\n<p>Started by serial entrepreneur <span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jason Polka who began and grew  Varsity  Painting into a multi-multi million dollar business and then decided to  go into specializing in the first Green painting business in the Bay  Area with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moondancepainting.com\/\">Moondance Painting<\/a>.<\/span><\/span> As with the first two businesses, Calfinder  began as one of those  businesses that grows out of the discovery of a  need.<\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"color: #000000\">The  solar part of the referral site has  <em>really<\/em> taken off, as one of the  first sites to focus on solar referrals  nationwide. <a href=\"http:\/\/solar.calfinder.com\/\">SolarCalfinder<\/a> has  now linked  over  10k homeowners with solar installers to get local  crews installing solar  panels on their houses. <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span style=\"color: #000000\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/05\/calfinders-referrals-for-independent-solar-contractors-hits-10-thousand\/#more-7966\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of getting solar to crank out some juice for your home is just getting it up on your roof; which is a construction job for a contractor. Which to choose, and why? A great place to start is the Bay Area&#8217;s own Calfinder, that refers contractors nationwide for solar photovoltaic or solar hot water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}