Burnham-Beck & Sun737 Gregory Rd , Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Solar company based in Fort Collins, Colorado, Burnham & Sun is positioned to serve solar customers in Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming. Burnham & Sun sells solar electric products and services for grid-tied and off-grid applications.   Clara (Sam) Burnham and other employees are NABCEP (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners) Certified Solar PV Installation Professionals. We attend dealer training and industry workshops every year to stay informed about new developments and products.  We will help you size and price a system for your specific application. We will help you with, or take care of, the rebate and RECs processes when they are available.

Grid- Tied Solar for Residential and Small Commercial

We offer two types of Grid-tied solar electric (aka photovoltaic or PV) systems for your home or business. Standard Grid-tie Solar Electric Systems will reduce or eliminate your monthly electric bills. Grid-tie Electric Backup Systems offer the same but also include emergency power from batteries during utility power outages.

Standard Grid-tied Solar Electric

These systems produce electricity during peak solar hours and send any excess back to your utility company to be credited against your demand when the sun is not shining. When your load demand is greater than the output of the solar array production, the demand will be met with power from your utility company. These systems do not include batteries or power storage so when your utility experiences a power outage, you will not have power,not even if the sun is shining on your array.

Grid-tied Solar with Backup

These systems keep a battery bank charged to power crtical loads during a power outage. When the battery bank is fully charged and the current loads are met, the excess production is sent to the grid for net metering. Batteryback up systems are typically $20k to $30K more than a Standard Grid-tied system.

Off-Grid Solar for Remote Sites

Where there is no utility power at the site, we offer complete systems including PV modules, inverters, batteries and backup generator for standalone power for seasonal part time applications and for full time off-grid homes.