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- Start here: set your case so the guide shows only your checks20 min
What this guide does. This is a lookup guide for one decision: sign a home solar contract or walk away. Each check follows the same order — what it is, how to find it, the numbers that matter, when it fits and when it does not.
How filtering works. Tap your situation below. Shopping shows every check before you sign. Signed shows the checks that can still undo, correct, or verify a recent doorstep deal. Later checks read back the values recorded here instead of asking again.
Criteria every entry uses. Every proposal and incentive is judged on the same four criteria:
- True cost — total dollars and dollars per unit of energy, after fees and escalators.
- Incentive kept — who is legally entitled to claim each credit, rebate, or certificate.
- Production verified — kilowatt-hours independently estimated, not taken from a sales model.
- Exit risk — what you can cancel, transfer, or lien-release, and by when.
What to have ready. The last 12 months of electric bills or the utility usage download, plus the most recent bill showing the retail rate.
Which describes you: shopping for solar offers, or signed a solar contract recently?Shopping unlocks pre-sign checks. Signed unlocks cancellation, verification, and filing checks.
To do
Tap Shopping for offers or Signed recently below; only the checks for that path unlock.
Add the metered kWh for the last 12 months from bills or the utility download.
Copy the all-in retail cents per kWh from the supply plus delivery lines on the latest bill.
To note down
Total kWh from the last 12 months of bills
Your current cents per kWh from the bill