Solar contractors urged to diversify into batteries and home electrification

Commentary that solar contractors should diversify beyond pure solar into batteries and heat pumps/home electrification, noting it is hard to find good heat pump contractors because HVAC contractors stick to selling gas/oil furnaces.

“As we electrify homes, it's oddly hard still in many areas to find a good heat pump contractor because HVAC contractors do what they did last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and they sell gas furnaces and oil furnaces, and that's what they do.”

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