ABOUT US
For fifteen years this has been our mission statement.
"TO INSTALL RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT WORK"
We have outfitted over 50 homes with hydro systems and over 300 homes with solar. The total solar installed ourselves is well over half a megawatt. Our PV system average size is about 2KW. There have been a few windturbines in there too usually augmenting the solar. We specialize in Hydroelectric up to a megawatt and solar grid-tie and off-grid. We have installed systems in eight states.
Solar Plexus LLC began in downtown Missoula as a retail sales and installation of renewable energy equipment business in 1994. Started by Lee and Mary and joined by Rip in 2000, we tried a lot of things that have long since been forgotten. Because of the expectations inspired by Real Goods and Lehmann's there were many unusual items in our store like butter churns, wooden clothes racks, water filters, green cleaning products. home made soaps, scrub boards, food dehydrators, heirloom seeds, map stationery and envelopes, bamboo of all sizes, scientific toys and many other wonderful things.
What we learned was that we needed to narrow our focus to what we really knew about which is renewable energy. This alone is a difficult subject to teach and learn on a daily basis, let alone all that other stuff.
We are now located at 1605 Stephens Ave. with a showroom, parking lot and a back door. We like it here enough that we decided to buy the building. It's quieter, has great access, gives us some equity out of our monthly rent and has cut down on the time consuming, frivolous drop-in traffic by quite a bit. When someone comes in the door here they are usually seriously interested in Renewable Energy and ready to ask good questions.
Of several NABCEP certified installers in Montana, two of the original certificants from 2004 are owners here at Solar Plexus LLC.
This house is on grid in Montana. We have installed a solar tracker to run the electrical loads for this country home.