Why go solar?
Because the electric bill is a cost you cannot opt out of, and this is the one version of it you eventually stop paying.
Solar is a numbers business. Not a green-living statement, not a lifestyle choice — a calculation about a bill you are going to pay one way or another for the next twenty-five years. So here is the arithmetic, plainly.
Utility rates are not going down. That is the starting point and everything else follows from it. A grid-tied system feeds your building first and sends the surplus to the grid, so you save on the power you stop buying and again on what the utility credits you for what you send back. Once the system is paid for, that is your rate for as long as it runs.
Incentives are a real part of the picture and they do not last. Rebate programmes and tax credits exist to jump-start an industry that could not stand alone without them, so by design they are temporary. They have a consistent history of going down each year, and occasionally of disappearing with little or no notice at all. Right now the commercial incentives are strong, which is why businesses, churches and non-profits are where the numbers currently work hardest. What is available to you at the moment you buy is something we will tell you at the moment you buy, rather than something you should read off a website.
Six reasons, and only one of them is about incentives.
It is the most predictable renewable there is
So predictable that we guarantee it. Given your location, tilt and orientation, annual output is a calculation rather than a hope.
Grid-tied solar is close to maintenance free
No moving parts on the roof. Panels carry decades-long output warranties, and the system runs without you thinking about it.
It adds hard equity to the property, immediately
Unlike most things you could spend the money on, a paid-for system is value that stays with the building.
The bill is unavoidable, the spend is not wasted
You will spend that money on electricity whether you like it or not. This is the version where you have something to show for it.
Financing means it can pay for itself
$0 down options, and terms through credit unions, banks or in-house. Let the saving cover the payment, then own it outright.
Utility rates are not going down
That is the whole argument, and it is the one that does not depend on any incentive programme surviving.
Distributed solar is a win even for the people who never buy it.
Utility companies have to build power plants, and power plants are extraordinarily expensive. To keep up with development and a growing population, new ones have to be built and old ones replaced. They take decades to pay for themselves, and that is before the maintenance.
Now look at the alternative you are currently considering. In round numbers, when you buy a system you put a micro power plant onto the grid, and the utility does not have to build, maintain or insure it. Everybody comes out ahead, including the people who never put a panel on their roof, because the utility spent less.
The part nobody tells you
Solar only makes sense if the system is designed for your building and actually produces what it was sold as producing. We see projects that will never pay for themselves because a contractor sold a big system rather than the right one.
That is the entire reason our Power Generation Guarantee exists. It is the one question worth asking every installer you speak to: what will it produce, and will you stand behind that number?
Start saving, and lock in your utility rate for the next 25 years.
A free, no-obligation consultation and energy assessment. You get the production forecast, the cost, the value of the power and the break-even, before you commit to anything. $0 down financing is available.