Solar information built for homeowners

Why does HyreSolar exist?

Home solar is a large purchase that is hard to undo, and it can be sold under time pressure by a salesperson paid on the outcome.

What a homeowner reads at that moment can come from the company selling the system. It need not be false to be selective.

We publish the other half: what makes a quote expensive, what a twenty-five-year warranty covers, what happens when the company that sold you the system is gone, and the numbers with nobody rounding in their own favor.

What does HyreSolar publish?

• Guides. Costs, incentives, equipment, financing, the work itself and choosing an installer.
• Original research. State-level studies computed from Form EIA-861, with the method and the data published alongside.
• Calculators. Free tools that show their formula and assumptions on the page, with no email wall.
• Your situation. How the answer changes by property type and by state.

What does HyreSolar not do?

• No installation. We have no crews, no trucks and no equipment.
• No financing. We do not originate loans, leases or power purchase agreements.
• No service or maintenance. No repairs, no monitoring, no warranty administration.
• No site visits. Nothing we publish is an assessment of your property.
• No guarantees. Not of savings, payback, or that solar suits your house. Anyone who guarantees those without seeing your roof, bill and tariff is guessing.
• No product picks. We sell no equipment and take no position on which manufacturer you choose.

How does HyreSolar research?

HyreSolar works from primary sources: federal agency data, state agency rules, utility tariff filings and manufacturer documentation. Where a figure is our own calculation rather than a published statistic, the page says so.

Our state-level work is computed from Form EIA-861, the annual electric utility report filed with the US Energy Information Administration. It lags by about two years, and it counts the same thing the same way in every state.

Every cost figure carries a source and a retrieval date. If a number cannot be sourced, we publish the shorter page without it. The research methodology sets out the source hierarchy and validation, and the datasets are downloadable.

How does HyreSolar expect to be paid?

HyreSolar intends to earn revenue by passing a homeowner’s request, when they ask and agree, to solar professionals who serve their area. You are never charged. Read everything here knowing that.

That money does not buy placement in a guide, a favorable comparison, the removal of a warning or a mention in our research. The editorial policy is the longer version of that sentence.

What happens if I ask to be connected?

Nothing is sent anywhere unless you fill in a form and tick a box saying you want to be contacted. Reading a cost guide does not hand your address to a sales team.

When you ask, a person reads your request and matches it on service area, the work described and the property type. If no company covers it, we tell you so. How HyreSolar works walks through the whole sequence.

What standard are the pages written to?

1. Reviewed, not generated. Every page states when a person last checked it.
2. Sources named inline. With dates, so you can check our work rather than trust it.
3. Labeled claims. Source data, HyreSolar calculation and HyreSolar interpretation are marked as such.
4. No rankings. No “best panel” or “best installer” lists, because we have no documented method that would support one.
5. No invented proof. No made-up credentials, awards, certifications, customer counts or review scores.

How does HyreSolar keep time-sensitive pages current?

Solar policy moves: federal credit deadlines shift, states rewrite export compensation, and utilities change tariffs on their own schedule. Pages on those subjects carry an effective date and a review date, and we update the page in place rather than publishing a new one with a year in the URL.

How can you reach HyreSolar?

Where are the other trust pages?

• How HyreSolar works: what happens to your details.
• How we vet solar professionals: the standard, and what we do not check.
• Editorial policy: how we source, date and correct.
• Solar FAQ: short answers, grouped by decision.