Full Spectrum Solar

It’s time: Best of Madison voting is open! With your help, we can win gold in the Solar Energy Company category for the fourth year straight.

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It’s time to bust some electric vehicle myths!

Do you have an electric vehicle, or are you thinking about getting one? We’ve been installing EV charging stations for residential customers since 2010. Reach out to learn how you can benefit from a charging station at [email protected].

Meet Nick Aikens! He has a strong electrical engineering background and specializes in large-scale projects with property development firms. He understands how to blend design and equipment to best serve your needs efficiently. Nick is happy to discuss technical matters and solutions with both solar and heat pumps.

We installed 24 Qcells North America modules with Enphase Energy microinverters for this rural homeowner, offsetting 102% of their energy needs. We used the existing conduit from the house to tie in our barn-mounted solar and save on electrical costs. We’ll also be installing a new heat pump soon. If the homeowner decides to add more panels, their east-west-facing pole barn roof offers plenty of room for expansion.

How cool is this? UW–Madison’s Badger Solar Racing team just unveiled their newest car called “Sunburst.”

UW-Madison students reveal solar-powered race car The solar racing team is working on Car 2: Sunburst, a solar-powered vehicle the team will use in competitions.

Severe weather events are becoming more common, and utility disruptions can last hours—or even days. Here’s how a battery system turns your home into a self-sustaining hub. 👇

How Battery Backup Protects Your Home During an Outage - Full Spectrum Solar | A full-service solar electric installer in Madison WI When the grid goes down, a home battery backup system keeps your lights on and your life moving. Unlike a portable generator, a battery system responds automatically—often within a fraction of a second—so you may not even notice the outage. The system isolates your home from the grid, powers ess...

You can rely on us for efficient, worry-free EV charging solutions. Our dedicated high-current EV charging stations cut recharge times by 50% compared to standard wall sockets. 🔋

Contact us at [email protected] to get started.

With 50 years of in-house engineering expertise, we take on projects of all sizes—from homes to churches, schools, apartment buildings, and more. ☀️

In case you missed it, Ron was featured in this In Business Madison article about our work to help folks recover from the extreme spring storms.

🔗 https://www.ibmadison.com/industries/madison-businesses-city-keep-busy-after-spring-storms/article_a631e631-76b3-4af7-9a1d-6e4d344b9661.html

The spring storm that hammered parts of Madison with hailstones — resulting in damaged roofs, shattered car windows and other destruction — will keep the area’s construction crews, auto glass and insurance companies busy in the weeks ahead.

I had a front-row (well, basement level) seat to the pummeling, which resulted in a broken window and two cars pockmarked with quarter-sized dents and a damaged windshield.

In the wake of the storm, on the near east side, representatives of roofing companies knocked on doors and dropped off fliers offering free inspections. What had been a neighborhood blanketed with golf ball-sized hail days earlier was now a mix of trucks, ladders and repair workers.

“For us, it’s unprecedented in 24 years of business,” Ron Chester, general manager at Full Spectrum Solar, told In Business Madison's Louis Livingston-Garcia. “We’ve installed over 50,000 solar panels, and up until the events of April 14th, we can think on one hand how many solar panels couldn’t handle your regular hail.

“The hail we witnessed on the 14th was absolutely next scale, next size, and we’re receiving a lot of damage reports.”

Read more at ibmadison.com or visit our link in bio to see the story.

Story and photograph by Katie Dean

This Greendale, WI homeowner wanted to offset 100% of their electric bill, which we were more than happy to help with. In addition to 15 JA Solar modules, we installed a whole-home 10 kW Enphase Energy battery backup system. There is plenty of room for expansion whenever the owner decides to add an electric vehicle charger and a heat pump.