Cutting through all the hype and advertising glitz, Big Island solar exec, Marco Mangelsdorf of ProVision Solar, has crunched mountains of data from the city’s Department of Planning and Permitting to show which solar companies are really in the lead. 

Check out the results in this piece he wrote for Civil Beat called, Oahu’s Solar Feeding Frenzy

An excerpt: 

Radio and television blurbs and expensive full-color, full-page ads in the state’s newspapers are being taken out by solar companies claiming, among other things, that they’re no. 1, the best, biggest, most popular, most experienced, most reliable, best positioned to be around in the long-run, most local and most professional. Call or email us today! The hype, spin and sales spiel has become so thick as to resemble a very voggy day in Kona.

One of the takeaways from the data that he’s organized into charts: RevoluSun is kicking a**. Had to be said. 

There’s a lot more to the story than that, though. Mangelsdorf provides a provocative analysis of the state of the solar industry, where it’s going — and where it’s not going.