Bermuda’s largest solar installer keeps growing

Building on 15 years of experience. Supplying Bermuda with the only commercial grade solar panels with 40 year warranty

With several new large-scale installations completed and others underway, AES maintains its position as the preferred provider of solar energy on the island. In addition, with AES sister company, Solar Roof Maintenance Ltd., solar energy users have a seamless service to turn to when it is time to have their panels removed to paint their roof.

Founded in 2008 by Chartered Engineer, Tim Madeiros, AES has more experience and solar PV capacity installed in Bermuda than all other local providers combined. In the past 12 months, AES has increased its capacity to more than 4MW of installed capacity to its portfolio. AES recently completed the solar installation of 433kW on the Department of Public Transportation bus garage on Palmetto Road.

“The roof of the bus garage is an exciting project. It is large enough for us to install panels that will produce the maximum allowed of almost 500kW; this will make it the largest installation on a single roof surface in Bermuda”, says Mr. Madeiros.

Mr. Madeiros explains that “the combination of AES’s experience gained over the past 15 years, the quality of the workmanship, and the SunPower panels AES supplies exclusively in Bermuda, which consistently perform over the the long term, are just some of the reasons the company is so successful in winning the largest and most prestigious solar contracts.”

SunPower has recently announced that their commercial grade solar panels will be the only solar panel in the world with a 40 year warranty. This is because SunPower has been manufacturing solar since 1985 and has a track record for delivering world record breaking solar technology for power, efficiency, and reliability.

“In contrast,” continues Madeiros, “when other solar panels available in the Bermuda market don’t deliver what was promised over 10 or 15 years, there’s no real recourse for the purchaser. Buying non-commercial grade solar panels may be tempting initially, but over time, the return on investment is very often significantly less with those brands than what you will receive from the SunPower panels we use at AES. That’s because the non-commercial grade panels degrade over time and end up not producing the power they promise.”

SunPower provides a 40-year warranty on power output, plus workmanship. “In other words” says Madeiros, “the SunPower warranty covers not only the power output of the panel, but the entire panel. So if the panel somehow loses its structural integrity — which I have not seen occur in my 15 years of installing these systems — it’s completely covered by the warranty. You truly get a robust 40-year warranty that includes shipping to Bermuda and the labour to replace the item. No other manufacturer offers this coverage, and no other company in Bermuda is able to offer this value”.

AES and SunPower are focused on consistent, long term, value for the customer, ensuring that the customer’s adoption of solar energy is easy and seamless, for their business or household, over the 40-year warranty period and beyond. “Together with Solar Roof Maintenance Ltd., we have addressed what some said was a deterrent to going solar — the ongoing care of Bermuda slate or SKB roofs”, says Madeiros. “You can now have your solar panels removed, have your roof painted by the Solar Roof team, and your panels placed back on your roof and reconnected, all in one seamless service from a trusted provider.”