Established in 2011 by Rutland Town residents Marlene and Philip Allen, the couple began the business as overgrown consumers, having gone solar themselves. Opening a ground-level storefront, providing local good-paying jobs to young people that were otherwise leaving Vermont and using American-made products wherever possible would help to establish solar as a “new normal” and benefit our local community, our state and our country.

We planned to work exclusively on small residential solar arrays, but have been amazed and humbled by the number of businesses, schools, non-profits and industrial clients that have entrusted us with their important projects.

In 2018, Same Sun expanded to a new storefront at 141 West Street. This 3000 square-foot space is powered by the sun via a solar awning and has battery storage technology as well as a dual EV charger in the parking lot.