People · operator entity page
Jeramie Rose · Founder / Owner, Sunlife Energy
Jeramie Rose founded and runs Sunlife Energy, building solar, battery storage, community power, and EV charging — utility scale down to the home, U.S. and international. His banner says it best: "Own your energy. Take charge."
Who he is
The verified quick answer
Jeramie Rose is the founder and owner of Sunlife Energy, a solar company working across utility, commercial, and residential projects. This page is a peer citation from a fellow San Diego County operator, written so anyone looking Jeramie up gets a straight, verified answer without a funnel in the way.
What a SideGuy does for Jeramie
Where a small tech layer helps a solar founder
- Storage = a compute budget — a local AI box (Mac mini class) draws 10-50W. Every battery Sunlife installs can run one indefinitely on stored sun: private AI, powered by the roof, zero grid cost, zero cloud subscription.
- The upsell writes itself — "your battery isn't just backup anymore." Jeramie was experimenting with crypto mining nodes on this exact energy-for-compute logic before AI made it useful to normal households and businesses.
- Repeat project tasks — quotes, permits, interconnection paperwork — the same private box eats Sunlife's own back office first, as the demo.
- Operator-owned, always — small tools owned outright, no per-seat SaaS. Sunlife supplies the energy; SideGuy builds the layer.
The real numbers · what local AI actually costs
Jeramie asked · here's the operator-honest answer · July 2026 prices
- Hardware: Mac mini (M4 Pro, 48-64GB unified memory) — one small silent box, plugs into anything.
- What it runs: the private workhorse models (7B-32B class) — drafting, summarizing bids and permits, Q&A over your own documents.
- Power draw: 10-40W. Less than a porch light. ~0.5-1 kWh/day in real use.
- Hardware: Mac Studio (M4 Max, 128GB) or NVIDIA's DGX Spark class box (128GB).
- What it runs: the big open models (70B class) plus your entire business archive loaded privately — every quote, permit, interconnection doc, customer thread, searchable and answerable in-house.
- Power draw: 60-270W under load, ~10W idle. Real-world ~2-4 kWh/day flat out.
- Hardware: Mac Studio (512GB unified memory) — frontier-class open models (200B+ quantized) on your desk.
- Honest note: Tier 2 covers a solar company's whole back office. This tier is for when the pilot outgrows itself — a good problem.
- One panel runs the whole thing. A single 400W panel in San Diego sun makes ~2-2.5 kWh/day — the Tier 2 box at full tilt uses about that. The starter box uses a quarter of it.
- The battery covers nights. 1 kWh of storage runs the workhorse box overnight at idle-plus-bursts. Stored sun literally becomes stored intelligence.
- vs the cloud meter: a 10-person team on cloud AI subscriptions runs $250-400/mo forever, and every document leaves the building. The local box is paid for in year one and nothing leaves the building — bids, customer lists, pricing stay yours.
- Honest caveat: the biggest cloud models are still smarter for the hardest one-off reasoning. Local wins on privacy, always-on automation, and fixed cost — that's 90% of what a business actually does all day.
Panels are the easy part. The founder running utility, commercial, residential, storage, community power, and EV charging at once is the hard part — and the battery in that lineup is quietly the most interesting piece: stored sun is a compute budget, and Jeramie saw that before the AI wave gave it a use.
Want to try a tech department for an hour?
I'll give it a quick first look. No Calendly · no meeting · neighbor to neighbor.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · neighbor to neighbor.
Find Jeramie publicly
his work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Jeramie Rose
- Company: Sunlife Energy · solar across utility, commercial and residential
Related on SideGuy
North County coastal substrate
- Solar-powered private AI → the flagship playbook for turning owned solar into owned intelligence
- Battery storage as a compute budget → the Sunlife-adjacent math: stored sun becomes stored work
- Microgrids and private AI → why inference is the polite, dispatchable load a solar system can carry
- Solar-powered AI compute economics → cloud meter vs owned local compute, with San Diego power math
- The SideGuy Operator Network → the living map of every North County operator we've built a page for — you're on it
- About PJ Zonis → the single operator behind this page