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Solar Services

Four jobs, and they divide the way the work actually divides: two of them put something new on a roof, and two of them deal with an array that is already up there and has become a problem. Most people arrive knowing which half they are in.

Which of these is yours

Each page says what the job involves here specifically, what the local power company and the permit office want from it, and what we need before anyone can quote it.

  • A solar battery installation part way through in an attached garage, the cabinet cover off with its cell modules and orange DC cabling exposed, the main electrical panel beside it and a torque wrench on the floor

    Solar battery installation

    You are exporting power you would rather keep, or you want the house to run through an outage.

  • Solar panel repair diagnosis on a Middle Tennessee house, an open string inverter on the brick wall with a multimeter clipped to its DC terminals and gloved hands steadying the probes

    Solar panel repair

    Production has dropped, the inverter is showing a fault, or the bill has crept back to what it was before the array went on.

  • A commercial solar installation on a low slope membrane roof, tilted modules on ballasted trays weighted with concrete blocks, rooftop HVAC units and the parapet edge beyond

    Commercial solar

    The roof is flat, the meter is a business account, and the plans will need a design professional on them.

  • A solar panel removal and reinstall in progress, modules stacked on edge in racks on the driveway while the shingle roof above is stripped back to the deck with the mounting rails still fixed to it

    Removal and reinstall

    The roof needs replacing and the array is in the way, or a roofer has told you it cannot be done.

Two things that decide most of this

The local rules that change every job on this list

Tennessee has no net metering, so power you export is bought at a price set by avoided cost rather than credited at what you pay for it. That one difference is why storage appears early in a Middle Tennessee quote and late in a quote written for a net metering state, and it is why the export figure sits at the top of the home page rather than in a footnote.

The other is the permit office. There is no single authority across this metro: Metro Nashville, Williamson County, the City of Franklin and the City of Murfreesboro each run their own, and they have not all adopted the same edition of the residential code. A layout signed off in one place is not automatically a layout that clears in another, which matters most when an existing array is coming back onto a new roof.

Guides

What to read before you decide

Four questions this market keeps asking that no competitor page in the Nashville results answers. Every figure in them carries its publisher and the date we checked it.

Next step

Not sure which one you need?

Describe what is happening and send a photo of the roof. We will tell you which job it is, including when the answer is that it is not one of ours.

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Tell us about the roof

About a minute, and it commits you to nothing.

How are you thinking of paying for it? "Not sure yet" is fine.

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