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The Lowe’s home improvement chain is teaming up with California-based Sungevity to make solor power more accesible to the masses. Some California Lowe’s locations will feature customer-friendly self-help kiosks that will email a solar panel installation estimate to the consumer within 24 hours. All the kiosks need is a few pieces of information and the customer is good to go.

The same iQuote system has been online for a while, resulting in 1,500 sales out of the 25,000 who gave the process a try. That’s a conversion rate of 6%. Not bad!

Read Travis Donovan’s story in the Huffington Post

The Sungevity site

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