Certified Solar Solutions » The Team

Bio- Matt Koster

jsnprkr — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:28:45 +0000

Matt is the Director of Field Services and works closely with both System Consultants and customers to ensure the highest quality results in customer service and system installation. Matt also holds a NABCEP certification, Journeyman of skilled trades and multiple skilled trade certifications. With over 10 years of skilled trade’s education and training Matt lends a tradesman’s approach to system installation and service.

Matt is also a self sufficiency enthusiast, and urban homesteader. Aside from his career in renewable energies Matt also practices perma -culture gardening and urban farming, aquaponics, and home food production.

Bio – John Ervin

jsnprkr — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:36:40 +0000

John has been a renewable energy professional for over 10 years.

He has sold and installed renewable energy systems in central Mexico, Arizona and Missouri. He lived off grid while in the Northern Arizona desert before finally coming back to Missouri to share the benefits of RE to his home state.

He was one of the founding members of MOSEIA and considers himself one of the solar “old timers” in the state. He also operates his own solar equipment distribution company, Midwest Solar Distributors.

He has vast knowledge of solar water heating, pv-both on grid and off, wind power and solar pool heating.

Before getting into the solar business John’s most notable professions were English Teacher and a member of the bomb squad in the Navy. He has travelled extensively, speaks Spanish and enjoys spending time in the Missouri outdoors harvesting renewable resources during the appropriate hunting season.

BIO – Jason Parker

jsnprkr — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:02:42 +0000

JASON PARKER

Jason is a mechanical and electrical engineer and a NABCEP Certified PV Installer™. He owns and manages the daily operations of Certified Solar Solutions, a full-service renewable energy systems sales, engineering, and installation company in Saint Charles. Jason’s electrical engineering career spans 20 years and he has been selling, designing and installing solar energy systems full-time since 2009.

Jason has been a key member of Missouri’s public policy community, drafting proposed legislation, providing Clean Energy Initiative compliance models and market projections, testifying on behalf of the solar industry before the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) as well as Committees of the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate. He is acquainted with the Public Service commission’s current Chairman, Doug Gunn, and has participated in negotiations with Ameren and Missouri’s coalition of major electric consumers conducted by the Missouri PSC.

Jason’s local activities include providing solar ordinance guidance and consultation to the cities of O’Fallon, Town and Country, and Clarkson Valley, and several neighborhood and community associations, including Saint Louis’s Central West End Planning Committee. Jason also delivers lectures and presentations on renewable energy and energy efficiency at events and local venues.

Jason is a steadfast advocate for both the environmental and economic benefits of renewable energy.

Before starting his solar business, Jason enjoyed a 20-year professional career designing factories, production lines, and computer-controlled machinery for companies such as Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, and ConAgra Foods.

Jason resides in Saint Charles with his wife, Athena, and the youngest three of their five children.

Jason can be reached by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 636-244-2445.

Meet The Team

jsnprkr — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:25:29 +0000

Here at Certified Solar Solutions, the management team makes a point of knowing what’s going on from the top to the bottom of our operation. There’s no better way to do that than to roll our sleeves up and get to work at what we love to do: install clean energy for all the right reasons.