Guides
Plain-English answers to the questions homeowners actually ask, from someone with nothing to sell you but a $15 report. Every number traces to NREL, EIA, the IRS, or DSIRE.
Payback
The one number that decides it, and the five things that move it.
Worth it?
Fast in sunny, high-rate states; slow where power is cheap. The honest decision factors.
Cost
The $/watt benchmark, typical system prices, and how to spot a fair quote.
Tax credit
How the Residential Clean Energy Credit works, what qualifies, through 2032.
Net metering
Full retail vs partial vs California NEM 3.0, and why it changes your payback.
Sizing
From your kWh usage and local sun to a system size and panel count.
By state
Where solar pays back fastest, and where it drags, compared side by side.
Home value
What the research says about owned vs leased systems at resale.
Batteries
When a battery earns its keep, and when it just lengthens your payback.
Quotes
The $/watt yardstick, the line items that matter, and the tactics to ignore.
