Generate your own electricity from the roof you already own. See how a solar system sized to your home cuts unpredictable utility bills and adds to your property value.
Get a Free QuoteYour roof is one of the most underused assets you own. A solar system turns the sunlight already hitting your home into electricity you'd otherwise buy from the utility, at rates that climb almost every year. Instead of renting power from the grid forever, you generate your own and lock in a predictable energy cost for decades. For most homeowners, that means trading an unpredictable, ever-rising bill for a fixed, known one.
Solar does more than cut your monthly costs. It makes your home more resilient and more valuable. Solar homes consistently sell faster and command higher prices than comparable homes without it. Pair your panels with a battery and you stay powered through outages and storms. Add an EV charger and you fuel your car on sunshine instead of gas. It's a single upgrade that compounds across your entire household: lower bills, energy independence, a smaller carbon footprint, and a more future-proof home.
Three steps. Side by side in between, you pick who to work with when you are ready.
A few quick questions: address, roof type, monthly bill, whether you want a battery. About two minutes. No phone number traded for a price.
Multiple vetted local installers price out a system for your roof. You see the all-in cost, the equipment, the financing, and the timeline in one comparison view — on your own time.
When a quote fits, we connect you to that installer through Solar Connect. The installers you didn't pick never get your contact info. You stay in control of the conversation.
Four reasons most homeowners end up going solar.
Stop guessing what your bill will be each month. Generate your own power and insulate yourself from utility rate hikes that arrive almost every year.
Solar is a sought-after upgrade. Homes with owned systems consistently sell faster and for more than comparable homes without solar.
Produce your own electricity and, paired with a battery, store it. Rely less on the grid and stay powered when it goes down.
Every kilowatt-hour your panels produce is one you didn't have to buy. Over 25 years that adds up to tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of energy you generated yourself.
Most homeowners get one or two quotes, glance at the bottom-line price, and pick. That's how people end up paying more for less. The price tag is one input. Here's what else moves the value of the deal — and what you'll see laid out side-by-side on every Solar Connect quote.
Not just price-per-watt — the full installed cost including permits, inspection, monitoring, and battery if you add one. Apples-to-apples comparison.
Panels and inverters vary in efficiency, warranty length, and degradation rate. A cheap system with weaker panels can cost more over 25 years than a premium one.
Panel warranties typically run 25 years, but inverter and workmanship warranties vary widely (10 to 25). Longer coverage from a stable installer is real protection.
Loan APR, term length, dealer fees baked into the system price, or whether it's a lease/PPA. Same equipment, different financing — very different lifetime cost.
How many kWh the installer expects the system to produce per year. Higher isn't always better — verify the assumptions (panel orientation, shading, derate factor) match your roof.
Most installs take a day or two on your roof, but the full path from signing to switch-on runs six to twelve weeks because of permitting and utility approval. A trustworthy quote maps each step.
We screen for licensing, insurance, install history, and customer reviews before any installer can quote on the marketplace. Three tiers — Vetted, Trusted, and Premier — show you at a glance how deep that screening went.
There's no sticker price for solar. The same square footage can quote anywhere from twenty thousand to forty thousand dollars depending on the variables below. Here's why two homes on the same block get different numbers.
The biggest single driver. System size scales with your annual energy use. A bigger home or higher bill needs more panels, which raises the total but offsets more of your bill.
Premium panels and microinverters cost more up front but produce more power, carry longer warranties, and degrade more slowly. The premium often pays for itself over 25 years.
Pitch, material, shading, and the number of separate roof faces all change labor time and mounting hardware. A simple unshaded roof installs faster and cheaper than a cut-up one.
A battery adds upfront cost but stores your solar for evening use and outages. Under California's NEM 3.0 rate plan, it's often what makes the system pencil at all.
Cash, loan, lease, or PPA each change what you pay and when. Buying outright costs the most up front but the least overall. Financing spreads it across monthly payments.
Local labor rates, permit fees, and utility interconnection rules vary by city. The same system can cost different amounts in different ZIP codes within California.
California has the highest residential electricity rates of any major state. PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E rates have climbed roughly 8 to 12 percent per year for the last five years, and the rate cases on file project that pace continuing. That single fact does more work in the solar math than the federal tax credit ever did — if you live on a tiered or time-of-use plan with a major California utility, your bill is the variable that most determines whether solar pays back.
Since April 2023, California has been on NEM 3.0 (the Net Billing Tariff). Power you send back to the grid during the day is credited at a much lower rate than what you pay to pull it back at night. That changed the design conversation: most California systems now pencil best with a battery, because storing your own midday production for evening use is worth more than exporting it. Every quote you'll see on Solar Connect accounts for NEM 3.0 — and the calculator below shows you the payback math with and without storage so you can compare for your own bill.
Enter your average monthly electric bill and we'll show you the estimated system size, total cost range, monthly savings, and how many years to break even. No personal info, no follow-up.
Run the calculatorFor many homeowners, yes. It depends on your situation more than it used to. With the federal residential tax credit gone for purchased systems as of 2026, the math now rests on your utility rates, how much power you use, your roof, and how you finance the system. Where electricity is expensive and climbing, solar still pencils out. Comparing real quotes side by side is how you find out for your home.
That's exactly what Solar Connect is built for. You enter some basic details once and get multiple quotes from vetted local installers to review on your own time. No pressure to commit. You compare price, equipment, and financing side by side, and reach out only to the installer you choose. You stay in control the whole way.
Most roofs work. The big factors are orientation and shading (south- and west-facing roofs with little shade produce the most) plus the roof's age and condition, since you don't want to install on a roof that needs replacing soon. North-facing or partly shaded roofs can still work, just with a different system size. An installer confirms it with satellite imagery and a site check.
System size is the biggest driver. A larger system costs more up front but offsets more of your bill. After that: the equipment tier you choose, your roof's complexity (pitch, height, number of faces), whether you add a battery, and how you finance it. Local permitting and labor rates vary by area too. That's why two homes get different quotes, and why comparing them matters.
Each fits a different situation. Cash means the lowest lifetime cost and full ownership. A loan spreads payments out while you still own the system. With a lease or PPA, a company owns it and you pay for the power, often with little or nothing down, and in 2026 that owner can pass along value from the commercial 48E credit. The right call depends on your cash, taxes, and goals, so it helps to compare offers side by side.
The install on your roof is typically one to three days. The full timeline runs longer, usually a couple of months from signing to switch-on, because permitting, utility approval, and inspection all take time, and those steps vary by city and utility. A good installer maps out the schedule in your quote so there are no surprises.
Under NEM 3.0, most California homeowners get more value from a system with battery storage than from solar alone. The credit you get for power exported to the grid during the day is much lower than the rate you pay to pull power back at night, so storing your own midday production for evening use captures more value than exporting it. Without a battery the payback period stretches out; with one, the system can pay back in a more reasonable time on most major utility rate plans.
NEM 3.0 is California's Net Billing Tariff, in effect since April 2023. It replaced the older net metering rule that credited exported solar at the full retail rate. Under NEM 3.0 you're credited at a lower avoided-cost rate when you send power back to the grid, but you still pay full retail when you pull power at night. The practical impact: solar still saves money, but battery storage is now a much bigger factor in the payback math because it lets you use your own production instead of selling it at the lower rate.