Redington Launches Solar Rooftop Partner Program

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Leading IT distributor Redington has launched the ‘Solar Rooftop Partner Program’ to encourage the adoption of solar power by homes and businesses. The program will be facilitated through the Redington digital platform, which will seamlessly connect the processes and industry stakeholders – home and business owners, solar installers, service management, financial institutions, remote monitoring of solar plants, solar EPC and SI and Redington Inventory Management. The aim behind this is to engage and onboard system integrators as authorized solar rooftop partners of Redington Solar.

Rooftop Solar Kits 
As a part of the program, Redington will help it select set of partners to identify and expand their customer base for solar rooftop plants. It will conduct quick and comprehensive assessments to understand the specific customer requirements and help the partners to cater to the same. Further, Redington will provide the rooftop solar kit. The kits are designed to suit different type of customer requirements in terms of quality and price.

Redington’s Tie-Ups
Redington has tied up with banks and NBFCs to provide financial assistance to its channel partners and customers to install rooftop solar plants. It will provide financial assistance to its partners through CUG credit cards and channel finance, as well as easy EMI-based consumer loans to customers. Additionally, Redington will provide the OEM warranty certificates directly to the end customers and assist them for any warranty claims throughout the life of solar plants.

It will also provide insurance to the rooftop solar plant to cover any potential risk scenarios that are not in the purview of OEM warranties.
Pradeep Srikanthan, SBU Head, Redington Limited said, “We, at Redington, have a strong focus on driving and democratizing the adoption of renewable energy such as solar, across all key markets in India. With the launch of the ‘Solar Rooftop Partner Program’, we aim to simplify and streamline the process of sale, purchase, installation and maintenance of solar plants on rooftops of home and businesses. This program will empower our trusted network of partners to strengthen their solar business by engaging and acquiring potential customers in an efficient, sustainable and profitable way.”

Key Features of Redington’s Solar Rooftop Partner Program
• Separate partners for residential rooftop and C&I rooftop solar projects
• Online CRM & project management tools to manage projects effectively
• Only Redington-authorized rooftop partner can offer rooftop solar plant insurance
• Redington rooftop partner will supply (MMS), earthing, (LA), and do the installation
• Authorized rooftop partner will do the billing to the end customer
• Consumer loans for customers to install rooftop solar plants.
• Authorized partner will get incentives for execution of their leads through Redington portal
• Limited number of partners to be selected per city

Redington’s Renewable Energy Business
Redington, which claims to have a strong presence in organized distribution, says that it is taking long strides towards the future of renewable energy with its solar business. Riding on the strength of a vast distribution network, it focuses on enabling the availability of high quality solar products from top global brands in the Indian market, the firm maintains. It distributes solar energy products to the last mile consumers through a network of solar system integrators, channel partners and installers.