Renogy

How I Started A $60M/Year Renewable Energy Company Specialized In DIY Solar Solutions

June 23rd, 2020
Yi Li
Founder, Renogy
$3.27M
revenue/mo
1
Founders
45
Employees
Renogy
from Ontario, California, USA
started June 2010
$3,265,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
45
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hello, my name is Yi Li, and I founded Renogy. Renogy is a renewable energy company that specializes in providing DIY solar solutions for everyday life—whether that is to power an off-grid vehicle or an at-home backup power supply.

We carry a range of products from compact panels to attach to your backpack while hiking to large-scale systems to outfit your cabin. Our specialty lies off-grid kits. For solar beginners, the learning curve can seem steep, but we're here to educate and provide them with easy-to-use solutions. To make the process less daunting for new users, we carefully curate kits with the necessary components for a functional system. By taking the guesswork out of solar, it helps alleviate extra stress from the decision-making process so that consumers only need to worry about correctly sizing their system.

Our products are especially popular with customers ages 40-60 who are either looking to outfit their vehicles with sustainable power for weekend boondocking trips or their RVs for retirement traveling. However, due to rising trends in sustainability, minimalism, and cross-country travel, we've become increasingly popular in those...

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