Solar services
Find vetted solar installers
Forty-three kinds of solar work in six groups, the situation that points to each, how we check an installer before a match, and the mix-ups that cost homeowners money.
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The short answer
Finding vetted solar installers starts from your situation, not the product. A high bill on a sound roof is an installation question; a system that stopped reporting is a repair question; an old roof under planned panels is a roof-first question. Each page covers the work, what moves the price and what to ask.
HyreSolar does no solar work. These pages help you judge a proposal and the company behind it.
When you ask for a match, we check the installer’s state license and insurance first (how we vet), then you choose whether to talk to them: get solar options. Comparing two options? See solar comparisons. Already signed? See your solar contract.
Which kind of solar work do I need?
You may know the situation but not the service name. Find what you are dealing with, and it points to the right page.
| What you are dealing with | Where to start |
|---|---|
| A high bill and a roof in good shape | Solar panel installation |
| A roof near the end of its life | Solar and roof replacement |
| A shaded or small roof, but open land | Ground-mount solar |
| Evening power costs more than midday power | Solar plus storage |
| You want power during outages | Home battery storage |
| An EV on the way | EV charger installation |
| Monitoring reads zero | Solar monitoring (check the meter first) |
| Output has dropped | Solar panel repair |
| A new roof, with panels already on it | Panel removal and reinstall |
| You want more panels | Adding panels (check your tariff first) |
| Your installer has gone out of business | Orphaned system service |
| A hailstorm just passed | Hail damage repair |
| A proposal on the table, not yet signed | Solar second opinion |
| You are buying a house that has panels | Pre-purchase solar inspection |
Which installation page fits your property?
The stages are the same for every new system. What changes is the structure the panels sit on.
Storage and charging: what do you want the power for?
A battery, a paired system and an EV charger all draw on the same service panel.
What does an existing system need?
Repairs, monitoring, expansion, upgrades, cleaning and roof work around an array you already own.
Paying for solar and checking the deal
How the system is paid for, and the checks worth running before you sign or buy a house with panels.
What happens at the end of a system’s life?
Taking an array out of service, and where the panels and batteries go.
Which solar work sits outside the home rooftop?
Solar that follows different rules from a home array: hot water, businesses and farms.
Which solar jobs get mixed up?
Four confusions that change what you pay for. Each is worth settling before anyone quotes.
A gateway that has lost its internet link reports zero while the panels produce. See solar monitoring.
Soiling lowers output evenly. A sudden drop on one section is shade or an electrical fault. See solar panel cleaning.
It powers the circuits on a backup subpanel chosen at installation. See home battery storage.
Expanding can end grandfathered export terms in some jurisdictions. Ask the utility first. See adding panels.
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Free, with no obligation: a person reads it and gets back to you. Matching is not live yet, so this is not a quote.
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Questions
What if I cannot tell which service I need?
Do I hire one company for all of it, or several?
Does HyreSolar do any of this work?
Why is commercial solar kept separate?
Why is there no average price on these pages?
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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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Information on these pages is general and varies by location, utility tariff, building code, roof and your own circumstances. It is not tax, legal or engineering advice. HyreSolar is an independent information site: we do not install, finance, service or inspect solar systems, and we do not supervise or warrant anyone who does.