They say that you can get free solar panels from the government. The untruths salesmen-and they are mostly men-peddle are often very similar. added 6.4 gigawatts of small-scale solar in 2022, the most ever in a single year, according to the Energy Information Association. needs to install 1,000 gigawatts of solar power by 2035 to be on track to decarbonize its electrical grid, and pushed by both a growing recognition of the urgency of fighting climate change and by well-publicized incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, not to mention rising costs of residential electricity, Americans are shelling out money for solar panels. (Ryan didn’t want his real name used for the story because he’s still in sales and wants to get into Harvard for business school.) “It’s this whole sales bro culture on Instagram,” he says. Ryan, who was 23 at the time, eventually quit and moved home, but he says new people were coming in all the time. The solar panels weren’t always being installed by professionals who knew what they were doing. The loans the homeowners were taking out didn’t have low interest rates. He wasn’t working in conjunction with the electric company. About 90% of what he was being taught to say was a lie. But something started to gnaw at Ryan as he knocked on doors in small Florida towns alongside other men from out of state, staying in free luxury Airbnbs while they sold rooftop solar. Within a few days, he was out knocking on doors, within a year he had made around $350,000.

He had gotten rich, he told followers, by selling solar panels.Ĭurious, Ryan messaged the man, who claimed he could teach others his success within 48 hours, Ryan was invited to Florida, to stay for free in one of the man’s apartments while he learned the art of solar sales.

Ryan was scrolling on Instagram when he ran across a verified account he figured must be run by a celebrity the young man in it showed off a new Lamborghini, a Florida penthouse, and videos of himself benching 225 pounds.

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