Residential solar
Panels sized to your actual usage and roof, so you make the most power during the cheap daytime hours.
In NorCal, power costs the most between 4 and 9 pm, right when your panels stop producing. A solar plus battery system covers that gap, so you run on your own cheap daytime power when PG&E charges the most.
A typical NorCal home: when you make power vs. when you use it.
Demand is climbing from EVs, electrified homes and data centers, while a big share of our power still gets imported from out of state. That mix is exactly why evening rates keep rising, and why making and storing your own power is the smart hedge.
Figures based on public CAISO / California Energy Commission.
Here is the uncomfortable truth. You have no agreement with PG&E. Whatever they decide to charge, and whenever they decide to cut your power, you simply pay it and live with it. No rate lock. No cap. No guarantee on anything.
The entire value of a PPA is the A. It is the agreement PG&E will never give you: your price and your equipment, locked and protected for a full 25 years.
Rates climb whenever they get approved. The power goes out when they call a shutoff. You get no say and no protection.
Your rate is locked for 25 years. Every piece of equipment, including the battery, is covered and replaced. Zero investment from you.
Same clean power either way. The only difference is who carries the risk for the next 25 years.
We start with your real PG&E usage and rate plan, then size everything to it. No upsell to panels you don't need.
Panels sized to your actual usage and roof, so you make the most power during the cheap daytime hours.
Store cheap midday solar and run your house through the 4 to 9pm peak, plus keep the lights on during an outage.
Let your battery support the grid during demand events and get paid for it, so your storage earns while you sleep.
Pair your car with solar plus storage so you fuel up from your own panels instead of buying expensive evening power from PG&E.
Heat pumps, induction, EVs. We size the system so your home can ditch gas without blowing up the bill.
Choose a PPA or a Prepaid PPA. You pay nothing for the hardware, your rate is locked for 25 years, and every component including the battery is covered.
When the grid is strained on hot evenings, a virtual power plant pools thousands of home batteries, including yours, to ease the load instead of firing up expensive peaker plants. You stay powered, the grid stays stable, and you collect.
Pay only for the clean power your system makes, at a rate locked for 25 years. Nothing out of pocket to start.
Prepay the 25 year agreement up front for the lowest possible rate. Same protection, bigger savings.
Both include 25 years of price protection and full equipment coverage, batteries included. We will run your real numbers on each.
We read your PG&E usage and rate plan to see exactly where your money goes, and when.
We model your solar plus battery system against your peak hours and show your locked rate on a PPA or Prepaid PPA.
Like it? We handle permitting, install and grid paperwork. Don't? No cost, no hassle.
See what solar plus a battery would do to your PG&E bill, modeled on your actual usage, not a guess.
By submitting the form you agree to be contacted about residential solar and storage. We are an independent consulting group, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing PG&E or any utility.
It helps, but in NorCal the catch is timing. Your panels make the most power midday when rates are low, and you export it cheap. Then you buy power back at the 4 to 9pm peak when the panels are done. A battery stores that midday surplus so you spend it during the expensive hours instead.
Nothing for a standard PPA. You pay only for the clean power your system produces, at a rate locked for 25 years. With a Prepaid PPA you pay the 25 year agreement up front for the lowest possible rate. Either way there is no hardware to buy and no repair bills, because all equipment including the battery is covered for 25 years. Now that the retail solar tax credit is gone, buying a system rarely makes sense, which is exactly why a PPA wins: all of the benefit, none of the cost or risk.
A VPP pools many home batteries to support the grid on busy evenings instead of firing up expensive plants. You can opt in, set a reserve so your home is always covered first, and earn for the energy your battery contributes.
Yes, and it is one of the best parts. A properly sized battery can run your essentials, and often your whole home for a while, when the grid goes down, including during PSPS shutoffs.
The assessment costs nothing and there's no obligation. If the numbers don't make sense for your home, we'll tell you that. We'd rather be the geeks you trust than the rep you dodge.