His name is his game
Jan 19
Wednesday, Mar 16th 2011, 4:00 AM
With a first name like Solar, he was most innate to make a vital from throwing a sun’s rays.
Solar Bawabeh was teased since of his name as a child, though now it’s profitable off with his new company, Solar Rainbow, that installs solar panels and sells a appetite to businesses.
“My whole life, people were creation fun of my name,” pronounced Bawabeh, 31, of Gravesend, who started a business final spring. “But now, it’s an icebreaker in business.
“People see it on my business label and we have to uncover them my driver’s permit and credit label to infer to them that we didn’t change my name,” he said. “It’s only a large coincidence.”
Bawabeh was innate in Syria, and his father designed to name him after his grandfather Solomon.
“But we have a large family, and there were already 6 Sollies, so my father wanted to make it a tiny different,” pronounced Bawabeh.
He co-founded Solar Rainbow – that rents space on roofs, where workers put in solar panels to beget purify electricity – with a childhood crony from Gravesend.
Bawabeh isn’t a revolutionary environmentalist. He majored in business administration during Baruch College and formerly owned a indiscriminate mantle company.
Bawabeh branched into a renewable appetite margin since his family owns blurb skill in Brooklyn and he’d listened that solar panels were apropos a renouned approach to make some-more income in genuine estate.
The association afterwards sells a appetite to a building’s tenants during a reduce cost than they can get from electric application companies with chief or coal-burning energy plants.
“They buy it from us for a 30% discount,” pronounced Bawabeh, “and they’re means to go green, that is really big.”
The complement his association is building on a Jordache jeans room in New Jersey generates adequate extract to energy 250 homes for a year, Bawabeh said.
The association that started in a tiny bureau on Third Ave. and 13th St. nearby a Gowanus Canal is already branch a distinction and expanding into new offices in New Jersey.
But all of a company’s clients are in New Jersey, where state subsidies for businesses that go solar make it some-more remunerative to implement a rooftop contraptions than in New York.
“We’re impressed with a work we have in New Jersey,” pronounced Bawabeh, “and when a attention picks adult in New York, we’ll be a initial guys to come back.”