Milestone Solar Consultants LLC

Milestone Solar isn’t one of the biggest solar-system installers in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  And we have no plans to become one of the biggest.  Because when you perform several dozen installations a year instead of several hundred, you don’t have to resort to high-pressure salesmanship just to make your numbers. You never have to rush a job through to completion, or cut corners on the way, just to finish in time for the next one. At Milestone Solar we don’t have any technically challenged, commission-paid salespeople, who will often promise just about anything to close a sale.  I’m a technical project manager, not a salesman. I’ve learned the photovoltaic (PV) business not only in classrooms, but hands-on, in the field. I’m one of just 93 solar professionals nationwide to earn both the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners’ PV Technical Sales Certification and their PV Installation Professional Certification. In addition to other credentials, I’m proud to hold Pennsylvania’s Certified PV Contractor credential – whose strict criteria include actual checks of installations and customer satisfaction.  Our approach is that it’s better to lose a sale than have someone pressured into buying one – or install one on a home or commercial building that wasn’t right for solar.  I realize that while a solar system is an investment that pays for itself and then some, it’s still too big an investment to make blindly. So I make sure you know and understand every detail about the system you are considering. I’ll never say, “We’ll have to ask engineering about that,” because I am engineering.  I’ll treat your solar array installation with the same attention to coordination and detail I applied to multimillion-dollar projects as a senior project manager and systems integrator at Cisco Systems. And I’ll personally make sure your solar array goes in on time and on budget, with no corners cut, that it performs as promised, and that it gives you a generation of trouble-free, dependable service.

CREDENTIALS

• 30 years of high-technology engineering
• 9.5 years as senior project manager and systems integrator on multimillion-dollar Cisco Systems projects
• Extensive classroom and hands-on PV training
• Installed grid-interactive and off-grid PV systems in California, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
• NABCEP PV Installation Professional Certification: North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners
• NABCEP PV Technical Sales Certification: North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP #291916) –  Project Management Institute
• State of West Virginia Licensed General Building Contractor • WV046827 
• State of Maryland Licensed Home Improvement Contractor MHIC102213
• State of Virginia –  Licensed Class A Contractor (Alternate Energy Systems VA2705150747) 
• State of Pennsylvania Licensed Home Improvement Contractor (PA071001)
• Certified PV Contractor – State of Pennsylvania: Installer: #626

Why Milestone?

• Because you get facts and straight answers instead of high-pressure sales pitches.
  
• Because before we let you buy a Milestone Solar system, we conduct a free on-site survey to make sure your home or commercial building is right for it.
  
• Because you can be sure of getting what you paid for. Milestone Solar gives you complete detailed custom plans, itemized lists of materials and delivery schedules – that we stick to.
  
• Because you don’t have to worry about rushed or slipshod work. Milestone Solar gladly takes as long as we need to do your custom installation right at no extra cost to you.
  
• Because our CEO is one of only 93 solar installers nationwide to have earned  the NABCEP (North
• American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners) Technical Sales Certification, the NABCEP PV Installation Professional Certification and the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.
  
• Because we choose to do dozens, not hundreds, of installations a year. So Milestone Solar never has to rush through your installation in time to start the next one. And we can always take the time for best practices quality steps, like flashing all roof penetrations.
  
• Because Milestone has installed more solar systems with battery backup banks than anyone else in the region, helping more homeowners keep the lights (and appliances) on in the event of blackouts.
  
• Because 45 days after installing your solar array, Milestone Solar follows up to make sure it’s performing every bit as well as we promised.