When To Outsource Solar Engineering Services

Even if you have in-house solar engineers, outsourced solar projects can radically transform your capacity for growth and flexibility. You can take jobs that would otherwise be outside of your wheelhouse, help you keep costs down in competitive markets, and grow without the immediate pressure to consistently maintain work. If you’re interested in significantly expanding your current workload, it might be time to contact a solar consulting firm.

Flexibility and Agility

Strategic Outsourcing is a flexible response to growth that keeps your company lean. While it might be tempting to hire more full-time employees, that increased investment in salaries requires you to continue to maintain the current pace at the risk of losing money. Outsourced projects however, are only paid for when work is available, and scales according to need. Even if you want to move everything in-house, outsourcing gives you the time and space to build it properly. Establishing new frameworks and structures takes time and it’s hard to focus on building it properly when more projects keep coming in.

Staying Competitive in Complex Environments

Outsourcing to regional experts can help you stay cost efficient in regulation-heavy areas, like New York City. These highly competitive markets have incredibly complex regulations that are applied or removed in myriad ways. Working with local experts fills in those blind spots and knowledge gaps, increasing both the turnaround time and the project’s efficiency. You can ship projects faster and save much more on the bottom line.

Expanding Services without Hiring Niche Experts

Outsourcing empowers you to expand without worrying about whether a job is outside of your specialties. By working for a range of solar installers, solar consulting and design firms have the workload to develop specialized teams. They can enable you to sell jobs that a single in-house engineer might not have the knowledge or experience to handle. This expands your specialties and services without paying the considerable known and hidden costs for untested new hires or full-time workers who will need additional work afterwards.

Working with a solar logistics, design and permitting company like Sologistics isn’t just for installers who lack in-house experience. It’s a strategic decision to keep your company agile and respond to the available work faster than you could if you kept everything in-house. If you’re interested in outsourcing part or all of your design or permitting work, or have any questions, you can get in touch with us here: