While Vertical Solar Systems is a new entity formed to bring the VS1 solar ring to market, the team behind it has deep experience in renewable energy, new product development, and scaling of startup operations. Collectively we came up with an idea to further the deployment, usage and global impact of solar and renewable energy with our design, while simultaneously looking to solve space, energy harvest, design and engineering challenges faced with solar deployments in numerous industries and applications. Initially the idea for the VS1 came for the need for disaster recovery, and solar energy harvest in combination with another free source of power – gravity. The VS1 idea was borne from a technical challenge presented years ago to one of our key members on how to use vertical solar energy harvest space to collect photovoltaic energy on large municipal water tower structures and then use gravity for water pressure. Two free sources of energy combined in a way top make water towers, water pumping, clean water availability more sustainable, more reliable and environmentally friendly. By using solar and gravity, well pumps and water towers can be deployed or retrofitted worldwide to p