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Solar energy is now easier and less expensive to install in your smart home or business. But there are still some serious issues – like when the main power grid is down and your home cannot access its stored solar power. Fortunately, innovators like Robert Madonna and his team at Racepoint Energy are quickly developing solutions to allow smart home owners the flexibility and control they want for total smart home management.

Racepoint Energy, LLC was started by Robert Madonna, who also founded Savant, specializing in home automation and control. The company came out of Robert’s own experience building his home using solar panels. He was disappointed when his solar array stopped working during a power outage, and by the fact that today’s tools limit what’s possible in home power generation. 

Robert founded Racepoint Energy with three questions in mind: 

    Why pay high rates for running everyday essential appliances?

    Why use solar power if it goes down when the grid is down?

    Why allow utility companies to raise prices?

Racepoint Energy was started by a home owner, for the home owner, developing innovative answers to how home energy is measured and used. Their technology uses the standard breaker box and monitors energy used by each circuit, and helps home owners manage energy storage systems regardless of what the grid or power companies are doing. 

If you’re looking to provide your smart home with security during grid failures, financial savings, or a more environmentally sustainable power source – or all three – the Racepoint Energy smart grids offer you flexibility and control of your home’s power. 

The Racepoint Energy Smart Nano Grid provides for renewable sources of power, storage, dynamic load management, and full system control. It can operate loads at the breaker, thermostat, socket, and appliance level. Its systems provide power grid independence.

If the power grid goes down, the Micro-Grid keeps your smart home’s systems running through its comprehensive Dynamic Load Management control system, so that you can still use all necessary functions. Dynamic Load Management also leads to economic savings using Time-of-Use pricing, the decreased cost of batteries, and also by taking advantage of today’s record low solar pricing and financial incentives for using solar power.

Using the standard breaker box, Racepoint Energy offers an innovative solution for how energy is produced, measured, and consumed.  

At Jackson Hole AV, we will build your Racepoint Energy solar power system to the highest standards today using premium quality solar panels, equipment, and hardware. Once the building is finished, we will schedule an inspection to confirm the installation conforms to local regulations with the utility company for power grid connection. 

To learn more about how you can take advantage of the new lows in solar costs, and gain more security and control of your home energy use with this environmentally-wise power source, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.