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RevoluSun

Solar energy company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7318606
Source-derived summary

RevoluSun is a solar company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, founded in 2009. RevoluSun is a residential photovoltaic installer with offices in Hawaii, Massachusetts and Idaho. To date, RevoluSun has developed more than 8,000 photovoltaic systems generating more than 50 megawatts (MW). RevoluSun’s headquarters are located at 660 Ala Moana Blvd #220a, located in Honolulu.

Currently, RevoluSun has 75 staff members and more than 20 project developers. The team's distinctions include: NABCEP-Certified Installer, Hawaii PV Coalition member, Hawaii Solar Energy Association member, Hawaii Chamber of Commerce member, CertainTeed Certified installer and Elite status SunPower dealer. Additionally, RevoluSun has a long-standing partnership with SunPower, a PV panel manufacturer.

Locations and Franchising

RevoluSun is the first photovoltaic company in Hawaii to franchise on the mainland. Following the success of opening RevoluSun offices on Maui and Big Island in February 2011, RevoluSun added a franchise in Massachusetts in 2012 and New York Office in July 2013.

Principals

Powell, Josh (CEO)

Yost, Colin (COO)

Carlson, Eric (CIO)

Business Offerings

Residential Solar

To date, RevoluSun has developed more than 6,500 photovoltaic systems generating more than 54 MW of power.

Editorial summary

“RevoluSun” enters the record as solar energy company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what RevoluSun, Solar and energy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2011, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. Its strongest next move is a source search built around RevoluSun, Solar and energy.
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Why this record matters

“RevoluSun” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, RevoluSun, Solar and energy provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7318606. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from RevoluSun” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.