Upfront answers, before we speak.

No. At night you use the net metering credits you banked during the day.

Without a battery, the system safely shuts off during an outage. With one, it keeps the house running.

They don’t expire; they roll forward. You can allocate them to another meter in the same utility territory with a Schedule Z form, but not to a property in another state.

About 30 to 45 days on average, from signed documents to a system that’s on. If the utility routes your interconnection to its Complex Process, add about 45 days.

Not a second panel. A service upgrade is sometimes needed: a 200A upgrade runs about $5,000, and we do them often ahead of solar.

We work with several inverter manufacturers, microinverters included, and recommend the one that fits your roof, your usage and your goals.

Our workmanship warranty is 10 years and covers roof penetrations, the electrical work and the install itself, labor included. It is paired with a 25-year equipment warranty.

Manufacturer warranties sit with the manufacturer and aren’t affected. If we were acquired, our workmanship warranty would usually be taken on by the buyer. If we stopped trading, it would end. We’d rather tell you that straight.

IronRidge Aire racking with Halo UltraGrip attachments: neoprene foam, an adhesive seal and gasketed screws, engineered to hurricane-zone standards. Roof penetrations are covered by our 10-year workmanship warranty.

Your home uses your own production first. Surplus is exported and banked as net metering credits, and you only pay the utility when you use more than those credits cover. If you financed, you pay the lender.

No. Both the solar loan and the lease need nothing out of pocket, and we don’t ask for any payment until we’re ready to install.

Yes. The loan reamortizes at months 12, 24 and 36. Put money toward it in one of those windows and the fixed monthly payment adjusts down. There are no prepayment penalties.

We start from your real usage history and size the system to produce about 100 to 105% of what you use in a year. If we only have a month or two of your usage, we’ll tell you the projection isn’t reliable rather than present it as fact.

With a solar loan, the balance is paid off before the deed transfers, and most owners settle it from the sale. With a lease, the arrangement is with the leasing company.

Often not. Where the grid is strong and outages are short, net metering already covers you. A battery earns its place where outages are frequent or last for days.

Yes. A backup battery detects the outage and switches your home over to battery power automatically.

Yes. A battery can be retrofitted onto an existing solar system, or run standalone with no solar at all.

Depending on the product chosen, all-in battery installation costs range $10,000 - $13,500.

If it’s near the end of its life, yes. The roof can be rolled into the solar loan, and almost everybody who needs one does exactly that.

About $250 to $300 per panel to remove and reinstall, so it scales with the size of the array. That is the number that makes doing the roof first worth it.

Yes, but watch the valleys. Where two roof surfaces meet, an adjoining surface may need doing too, to keep the shingles watertight.

The inverter’s phone app shows real-time production, plus error codes and connectivity warnings. That includes daily, monthly and lifetime production.

Very little. The panels have a self-cleaning surface and rain handles seasonal pollen and dust. If yours ever do need a clean, we can take care of it.

Yes, for 10 years, under our workmanship warranty.

Yes, including systems whose original installer has gone out of business.

With a loan, you or your LLC own the system outright and keep the incentives. With a lease, a third party owns it and takes them.

If it is financed with a solar loan, the balance is paid off before the deed transfers. Most owners settle it from the sale proceeds.

Twelve months of utility bills, roof or site plans or access for a site visit, and whether you own or lease the building.

Yes. A typical 200A upgrade is about $5,000, and adding solar at the same time saves you $1,000 on the upgrade.

Panel capacity and available breaker space come first. They decide whether an upgrade is needed.

It can. Where the utility is planning its own work on your service, it’s worth knowing what they intend before an application goes in, so you aren’t asked to fund transformer costs.

It happens. Some insurers won’t write or renew a policy on a home with knob-and-tube or aluminum wiring, and some lenders require it be addressed before they will finance.

Not a fixed one. Every house is different, so the price and the timeline come after an inspection.

The service size, and where a future battery would live. Battery siting rules vary by town and inspector, so confirm them before framing is closed up.

We coordinate directly with your carpenters and GC on conduit routing and wall close-up dates, as we have on multi-unit jobs. We confirm our current schedule before we commit to dates.