The obvious answer to fossil fuels and CO2 emmissions is renewable energy, and solar is a big part of the answer.  It's been staring us in the face for over 30 years.

Since its invention – Solar Energy has been expensive and not a true contender in the home electricity market.

Over the past decade, solar module costs have dramatically declined, bringing the technology within reach of consumers on a wider scale – it is poised to become a dominant force.

The industry however, has inherent flaws which hold back explosive growth. 

The mantra for current Solar Providers is “you can now replace your Utility Bill with Solar”, which is compelling; however, for most consumers, this translates into replacing their Utility Electric Bill with a nearly comparable Solar Finance Payment for 10 to 20 years before realizing a payback. 

Going green with solar is just a trade-off of payments – and while it’s a good thing for the environment, it is not a strong motivator for most consumers.

Solar To Scale has conceived a strategic model which enters into bold new territory.

Our unique selling proposition provides consumers the ability to pay dramatically LESS for solar than the status quo of paying the Power Company – offering them significant positive cash flow plus the other great benefits of going solar from day one.  It’s no longer a matter of being able to afford solar, now you can’t afford not to go solar.

The model is achieved by leveraging all aspects of the supply chain – factory to consumer.   We achieve cost savings at every level to make possible a price point which opens the ability to “go solar” for the majority of homeowners and small businesses.  Consumers Win!

We couple this with a tiered affiliate marketing plan which uses social media and grass-roots people-power to capture a new wave of entrepreneurial spirit – average people can tap into the greatest transfer of wealth ever in history.  Energy has been controlled by a small group of wealthy power companies until now – our model helps to rapidly transfer the electric power, and the money, directly into the hands of the consumers with roof-top solar.  Community Wins!

The accelerated growth that this model enables will catapult our presence in the marketplace – making Solar Direct a recognized national brand – the premiere choice for solar energy.  And all of this translates into an excellent return on investment for our partners and investors.  Solar To Scale Stakeholders Win!

Solar Direct, and its founders, have been in the solar industry since its infancy.  Despite the roller coaster ride that the industry has experienced as it has struggled to come of age, Solar Direct has grown into an enterprise.  Through forward-thinking and resilience, the founders have archived many innovations & accomplishments.

In late 2016, after recognizing the need for a radical change in the industry, we have developed a new initiative, a Solar-to-Scale Accelerator, a unique Innovative Business Model which utilizes both solar and battery energy storage disruption.

Solar–to–Scale Accelerator
Solar Disruption + Energy Storage Disruption + Business Model Innovation

Solar-to-Scale, Inc was created to encompass this new vision – working together with Solar Direct and it’s affiliates.

Solar-to-Scale’s signature early-stage innovation, the Solar Buyers Club up-ends everything... Powered by the unstoppable megatrend of the New Energy Economy and the coming disruptive solar wave, Solar Buyers Club is poised to generate record-shattering gains and lucrative long-term investment opportunities.

A Thrive Powered Inspiration to create this New-Era Shift, Solar Buyers Club promises to rock the future of solar!  

 

Customer Cost of Acquisition per watt is an impressive 50 – 75% less than the competition.

The Solar-to-Scale Model's  New Energy Formula using the Solar Buyers Club lead acquisition engine gives us a clear Competitive Advantage: Retail Price Dominance.

Competition $3.00 per Watt Installed
National Average Retail Pricing 

Solar Buyers Club
$1.85 - $2.10 Retail Price Installed

When you have one company doing the manufacturing, another doing the marketing, and a third taking care of the installation itself, it drives up prices, as each company along the way has to protect its profit margins. And oftentimes, customers are stranded in the middle of the chaos, unsure of where to turn to get their questions answered or their needs addressed. 

Solar Direct's “one stop shop” approach gives us total control over our product and our pricing, and gives our customers a single, unified resource for all of their solar energy needs. The synergy between our online and physical services further streamlines the process and keep our quality of service high and our cost to customers low.

As companies like Walmart and Ikea embrace solar energy as the future of their power grid, the market will grow exponentially over the coming years.  With our significant online presence, we are poised to capitalize on this growth; we are already providing solar energy equipment to customers across the United States and beyond.Now, we're ready to improve our product offering by expanding our contracting and installation services to new areas beyond our Florida & Texas base. To achieve this goal, we're looking for innovative, engaged partners who believe in the Solar Direct vision for the renewable energy future and who would like to join us as Solar Direct contracting affiliates and/or franchisees.

The Solar to Scale projections over the next five years have a forecast of $1.1 Billion in revenue, a business valuation of $950 Million plus, and a net profit of over $265 Million dollars.

The projections are achievable, and quite probably conservative – with much room for even greater potential.  The energy market for residential solar in the U.S.  alone exceeds 2 to 4 Billion dollars per year by 2020, plus the Battery Energy Storage market is fast becoming equally as big, and Solar Direct expects to capture a significant market share of both with it’s unique business model.

Many experts and industry leaders agree, we have a serious CO2 issue effecting our planet and possible existence.  Bill Gates has an equation to save the planet – but its success requires a breakthrough energy miracle.  

Tony Seba, a well respected Industry Analyst, has identified 4 emerging miracle technologies – and two are in alignment with Solar-to-Scale’s business model.

Solar Direct believes new energy technology alone cannot innovate its way to global solar adoption; it’s not just the science that must evolve…obsolescence along the entire value chain must also be modernized.

Kirk Maust and Jason Tomczyk are co-founders of the Solar–to-Scale Accelerator,
an initiative that is now positioned to significantly disrupt the global energy disruption using a New Energy Formula.

All “Disruptive Technologies” follow an S-Curve, where growth is slow for a long period, and then at a tipping point, suddenly rises sharply, as it overcomes the previous paradigm.

Based on Tony Seba’s perfect world prediction, solar will be 100% adopted and provide  nearly all of the world’s energy needs by 2030; however, the  restrictive limitations in the present industry  model may not reach that goal until after 2050.

Maust and Tomczyk believe that Solar-to-Scale will solve the restricting limits of real-world solar scalability.  By aggressively removing barriers within the value chain their accelerated S-curve now exceeds Seba’s forecasts.  To develop a global-wide scale-up their pilot program initially targets the $135 Trillion Florida and Texas markets.

Solar-to-Scale’s New Energy Formula substantially increases profitability by overcoming the restrictive realities of existing processes - and the limits of solar’s ability to rapidly scale.

The New Energy Formula applies incentivized efficiency and extreme innovation to every process and technology end-to-end across the value chain – exponentially multiplying performance and profits.

Solar Direct is home to the Energy SuperMarket, one of the Internet’s top visited e-commerce destinations for renewable technology. But our services don't end there: our “one-stop shop” approach to renewable energy combines product manufacturing, design, engineering, marketing, installation, and more — all within one all-encompassing organization.  

Solar Direct's products are the perfect renewable energy solution for a wide range of residential, commercial, recreational, industrial, agricultural, educational, governmental, and all off-grid applications.

At Solar Direct, we are dedicated to a holistic approach to renewable energy that first reduces existing energy costs and then generates power to lower energy costs in the future — or eliminate them altogether! 

Launched in a single office as a division of an HVAC company in 1982, Solar Direct has grown to a successful operation serving the entire state of Florida & Texas with installations and worldwide through e-commerce. 

We directly employ over 25 people, with extensive experience in the renewable energy industry going back thirty-two years.  Our Solar Buyers Club affiliate network already has hundreds of members and leaders from the beta soft launch in Arpil 2017

We operate from a 10,000 sq. ft. facility in Florida, which is 100% powered by solar energy

Our customer base has reached over 85,000 people, growing approximately 10% per year - growth expected to explode with new platform expansion

1,500 to 2,500 people visit the Energy SuperMarket site each day 

Our past customers include the Boy Scouts of America, USGS, Florida State Parks, US Fish & Wildlife, NASA and US Embassies world-wide 

Kirk Maust, CEO

Kirk Maust earned one of the nation’s first degrees in solar and renewable technology in 1981. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University’s Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, recognized as having the largest and most prestigious engineering degree program in North America. Moving to Florida, Maust managed and later acquired the solar contracting division of an air conditioning firm. 

Kirk Maust now represents the new breed of entrepreneurial executive; his defining characteristics encompass 35-years of “real world” solar and renewable engineering experience, Internet technology and digital communication skills, as well as having the spirit and aspirations of an e-commerce visionary. 

In the early 2000’s, building on the success of offering alternative energy information to consumers via the Internet in the mid 90’s, Maust developed Solar Direct’s first electronic shopping cart – the Energy SuperMarket. This investment in an e-commerce platform dramatically increased revenues, and distribution expanded first nationally, and then globally.  His goal now is to further expand the years of knowledge and experience exponentially through the Solar Buyers Club platform, to bring the [solar] power to the people (everywhere).

Dale Gulden, President

A 37 year veteran of the Solar and Renewable Energy Industr

y, Dale Gulden holds a bachelors degree in Business Marketing and Economics from Indiana State University and was the former President of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Florida Solar Energy Industries Association (FlaSEIA). Gulden has served as a keynote speaker to environmental and business groups on the economic and ecological “green benefits” of solar and renewable energy technologies.

In 1986, Gulden partnered with Kirk Maust, a leading solar engineer, establishing Solar Direct as one of Florida’s premier solar contracting firms offering installations statewide in Florida. Solar Direct holds state licensing for solar, electrical, commercial pool construction, and has its own Professional Engineer on staff. Solar Direct also offers consulting and engineering services for large custom residential and commercial projects.

As the leader of Solar Direct, Dale has directed the company into one of the highest ranking e-commerce destinations for renewable technology. Gulden then expanded this unique model nationwide by establishing Solar Direct’s internet presence in 1995 with TheEnergySuperMarket.com, becoming 

the first website to offer renewable product information and consumer eco-education along with the ability to purchase products on the internet.

Gulden’s responsibilities include oversight of the Sales and Marketing Departments, providing consultation to major clients, as well as conceptualizing future growth and direction for Solar Direct.

Sheila Gulden, COO

Sheila Gulden joined Solar Direct in 1996 as the Assistant to the General Manager. She has a comprehensive knowledge of the operations of the company, including back office logistics, warehouse and fulfillment, and finance. In 2000, Sheila was promoted to Administrations Manager and in 2005 to Vice President and CAO.

Jason Tomczyk, CBDO

With nearly 12 years management experience in one of North America's leading Solar and Renewable Energy companies, Jason brings a wealth of skill to the table. Organization and planning are his forte' and his attention to detail and natural drive to serve each customer with impeccability ensures a satisfying transaction, start to finish. He has managed the installation of thousands of solar systems, both residential and commercial, and is a certified installer of Vortex Solar Panels.

Oliver Baumgart, CSO

Oliver Baumgart started his business career as Financial consultant for Mercedes Benz Financial Services in Munich, Germany from 1995 – 2004. He then worked as consultant for “Deutsche Bundeswehr” based in Munich from 2004 – 2009. Beginning in 2002, Oliver started his own part-time solar consulting company in Germany, offering advice for Home Owners and financing options for Solar systems. 

In 2009 he expanded and founded another company in Naples, Florida. Florida’s Green Energy Inc. which now is United Capital Solar Consulting Group Inc.  Since 2011 Oliver Baumgart has worked  for Solar Direct as an independent Product Solution Specialist.  In  May 2013 Oliver was sponsored by Solar Direct as Sales Manager for the Florida market, and became a Resident U.S. Alien in 2016. In 2016 he was promoted to CSO for the U.S. Market.

David Webster, CMO

David Webster, founder of Facebook’s Living off the Grid page now boasts more than 1 million followers!  His previous online companies have included Move-a-piano.com plus Namebrandpianos.com, Cheap-pianos.com, Worldofsteinways.com, Ornatepianos.com, and Restore-a-piano.com (all top Google-positioned names that made piano buying easy with free nationwide delivery).  Other success stories included one of the biggest sellers of Residential Roofs in the Oklahoma marketplace! 

Living off the Grid has more than 5000 articles published to date on Offgridquest.com about Strawbale homes, tinyhouses, solar, wind energy, rainwater catchment, raising livestock, living in the wilderness, generators, electricity, etc.   Eventually David learned to monetize the traffic that was flowing through theses pages, and developed partnerships with other pages such as AmazingToSee.com.  His sites have boasted more than 40 million weekly page views over the years!

Today David is the CMO of SolarBuyers.Club, bringing systems skills that built the piano trade, knowledge gained from the roofing industry, and a passion to empower individuals with their own energy production systems.  He has a vision to see self-reliance become more than just a wilderness adventure, but longs to see efficient housing with rainwater catchment, self-powered, and free of “the man”.  He dreams of a world without power lines in the way of a sunset, and is the driving force behind the idea that 12 years from now, the power lines will be obsolete and coming down.  He continues to manage the Living off the Grid page, creates new web ideas like Solarquotemachine.com, shoots drone footage in his spare time, manages some 25 Facebook pages and groups, and interacts with millions of people on a daily basis.  Living with a sunrise view every morning, he has taken up photography for fun, often sharing around in order to draw people into his world.

Paul Bland, CTO

Paul Bland has a AS Computer Sciences Associative Programming Degree from Keiser University, and is currently attending USF with a computer sciences major and biochemistry minor.

Current and/or Past Certifications include; Network+, CCNA, MCSE, A+.  Experience with C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Perl, Python and assembler.

Over 15 years working in the IT field in areas ranging from network administration, security, windows, Linux, MySQL, Apache, and php development. Custom applications development from the ground level through completed launch in hundreds of projects spanning most modern programming languages.

Paul oversees and manages all aspects of IT infrastructure for Solar Direct, including computer networking and hardware, software applications, and web development, analytics and optimization.

We are currently seeking an additional $1,000,000 funding in the form of Debt or Convertible Debt between August and October 2017.  

Between September and early 2018 we will be seeking a second tranche of $2,000,000, an Equity Stock offering from accredited investors and a limited number of non-accredited investors. 

A complete Business Plan can be requested for serious inquiries; opportunities begin at $100k.  Download an NDA below and email to Admin@SolarDirect.com.