Dave Llorens is an American entrepreneur and the founder of the

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financing aggregator 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid), serving as its

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from 2008 to 2012 before leaving due to personal reasons. The

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was notably featured in the 2010 documentary

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.Video Q+A with solar entrepreneur Dave Llorens
/ref> In 2009 the company accounted for a quarter of all solar installations in the San Francisco Bay area. Llorens also started SolarPowerRocks.com, a website that consolidates information on solar grants and incentives by state, and co-founde
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1BOG

The company aims to put the cost of residential

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within the reach of more families and thereby increase the adoption of sustainable solar technology nationwide, mainly throughout

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, and several other major

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. 1BOG, however, has historically faced several regulatory issues due to state-independent protocol for metering, permits and rebates. Llorens reported to ''

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'' in a 2011 interview that solving this confusion was an ongoing mission for 1BOG. "We serve as a conduit between the consumer companies, and finance companies in 40 states and growing," Llorens further elaborated in an interview with the

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. As another 1BOG executive told Venture Beat, their company aimed to provide solar systems as a cheap and affordable solution for the regular person through low upfront payments. 1BOG's industry model is an example of

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, in which a company discovers a way to make

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while promoting

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and

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. It is a successful example of this model, making its money on

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and payments from installers.

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SolarPowerRocks.com
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