Guides
Longer guides organised around a decision rather than a single question: what to back up, when to re-roof, and whether you need solar, storage or both.
A battery without solar
Installing storage on its own gives you backup without a roof project. What it does, what it cannot do, and when it is the right order to do things in.
Hurricane backup power in Florida
How to plan backup power for a Florida home before hurricane season: what to back up, how batteries and generators differ, and what to decide before the storm forms.
Should I replace my roof before installing solar?
How to decide whether your Florida roof should be replaced before an array goes on it, and what removal and reinstallation costs if you get the order wrong.
Solar permitting and interconnection in Florida
The two separate approvals every Florida solar project needs, who grants each, what commonly causes delay, and what a homeowner should ask about timelines.
Solar without a battery
Solar without storage is the cheaper and often more sensible purchase where net metering is available. What you give up, and who should still add a battery.
Whole-home vs essential-loads backup
The backup scope decision drives more of your cost and outage experience than the battery brand does. How to choose between whole-home and essential-loads backup.
What a guide is here, and when to read one instead
A guide covers a decision that takes more than one answer to make — sequencing a roof replacement around an array, planning backup power before hurricane season, working out whether storage without solar makes sense for your house. If your question has a direct answer, the answers section is faster and gives it to you in the first paragraph.
Each guide states what it assumes about your situation, and each is written to be useful to someone who decides not to buy anything. That is deliberate: the parts most likely to be left out of solar content are the ones that argue for waiting, and those are often the parts that save the most money.
Every time-sensitive fact carries the date we last verified it and the source it came from. Solar content ages badly — the federal tax credit changed in 2025 and a great deal of published advice still assumes the old rules — so a guide without dates on its numbers is not doing you a favour.