Solar comparisons
Solar comparisons
Every HyreSolar side-by-side page, grouped by the decision you are making: how to pay, which equipment, and backup and export credits.
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The short answer
Solar comparisons on HyreSolar put two or three options on the same basis and name the factor that decides between them. Start with how you will pay, because ownership changes every later answer, then the equipment, then backup and export credits.
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How do you want to pay for it?
Who owns the system decides who gets the savings, the incentives and the problems when you sell.
Which equipment and which setup?
The differences that matter on a proposal, and the ones that only look like they do.
Backup power and export credits
What keeps the lights on in an outage, and what your utility pays for the power you send back.
Who installs it and who stands behind it
The company on the contract, the crew on the roof, and which warranty covers what.
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Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a sales floor. We read the statute, the tariff, the code section, the federal filing or the manufacturer data sheet ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify. That rule has cost us whole sections, and it is why the rest can be checked.
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How this desk works
- Primary sources only. Statutes from the legislature’s own publishing system, federal data from the agency that collects it, code text from the adopted edition, manufacturer claims from the data sheet. We do not cite an article that cites a source; we go and read the source.
- Every figure carries its provenance. A named document and the date we retrieved it, so you can check it and so you know how old it is. Retrieval dates are not decoration: an EIA rate from May is a different fact from an EIA rate from August.
- We publish what we could not verify. Every research page carries a section naming the things we tried to establish and could not, and why. A paywalled standard, a state website that refused the request, a manufacturer that publishes no figure at all.
- We separate measurement from modeling from our own reasoning, and label which is which on the page. A laboratory measurement, an assumption inside a modeling tool and our own inference are three different kinds of claim and they are never presented as one.
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Information on these pages is general and varies by location, utility tariff, building code and your own circumstances. It is not tax, legal or financial advice. HyreSolar does not install, finance or sell solar.