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Solar & storage
Under NEM 3.0, the battery is the project
California's net billing rules pay very little for midday exports and charge the most after sunset. That one fact changes how a system should be designed — and how it should be sold to you.
A solar-only array that made obvious sense a decade ago now leaves a lot of value on the table. Under net billing, the power you push to the grid at noon is worth a fraction of the power you buy back at seven in the evening.
Pairing the array with storage lets you hold your own production until the expensive hours. It also keeps the lights, the refrigerator and the well pump running when the utility goes down — which, in much of California, is a design requirement rather than a luxury.
We size systems around your actual usage data, not a square-footage rule of thumb. Bring twelve months of bills to the site visit and the conversation gets much more specific, much faster.
And we will tell you plainly when solar is not the right spend for your situation. A shaded roof, a planned move, or a household that already uses very little power can all make the answer no.
Equipment
What we install
Not locked to one manufacturer. Panels, inverters and batteries get chosen per site, per budget, and per what you actually need the system to do when the grid is down.
- Enphase
- SolarEdge
- Tesla
- REC
- Qcells
- Sol-Ark
- EG4
- FranklinWH
Mount types
Roof or ground
Roof mount is the default when the roof has the right pitch, the right orientation and enough remaining life. If the roof is close to needing replacement, we would rather do the roof first than pull an array off in five years.
Ground mount comes into its own on the larger desert lots we work on. You get ideal tilt and azimuth instead of whatever the builder happened to frame, easier cleaning and service, and no roof penetrations at all. Several of the systems in our gallery are ground mounts for exactly this reason.