Solar 801 connects homeowners in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, and Weber counties with residential solar installers. Before that, we tell you what to look at, because the decision is yours to make and not ours to close.
The proposal is the product. Learn to read one and the rest gets easier.
Some of these end in an installation. Some of them end in a reason to wait. We treat both as legitimate outcomes, because they are.
Design, permitting, installation, and utility interconnection for a grid-tied rooftop or ground-mount system. Sizing starts with your past usage rather than a sales target, and the installer should show you the production assumptions behind every number in the proposal.
Learn more →Storage paired with new or existing solar, or installed on its own. Batteries answer outages and evening self-consumption. That is a different problem from lowering a bill, and it deserves its own conversation before it lands in a quote.
Learn more →Production that quietly dropped, inverter faults, monitoring gone dark, loose racking, or a system you inherited when you bought the house. We connect you with crews who service existing arrays, including ones the original installer no longer supports.
Learn more →The roof needs replacing and there are panels in the way. Removal, protected storage, and reinstall after the roofers finish, sequenced so the two crews are not blaming each other. Avoidable expense, which is exactly why roof age matters first.
Learn more →You already have a quote and something feels off. We connect you with someone who reads it line by line, equipment through warranty terms, and tells you what is missing, including when the honest answer is wait.
Learn more →Shopping, holding a proposal you do not trust, or dealing with a system that already exists. Those are three different conversations and they should not start the same way.
Twelve months of utility bills, the age of your roof, and any HOA or historic review that applies. A proposal built without those is built on assumptions.
Equipment, warranty terms, contract structure, and what happens when you sell. We will tell you what to ask rather than what to buy.
If somebody knocked on your door in July and told you your neighbors had already signed, you are not imagining the pattern. Utah has had a long run of high-pressure residential solar sales, and plenty of homeowners ended up holding contracts they had not fully read, systems sized against a commission rather than a power bill, and financing terms that only surfaced later. That history is the reason a lot of sensible installations never happen. It is also the reason we built this site around evaluation instead of persuasion.
So these pages spend more time on questions than on answers. We cannot tell you what solar costs at your address, what it will produce, or what it will save you, and anyone willing to say those things over the phone before looking at your roof and your bills is guessing at your expense. What we can do is hand you the list of things a real proposal has to contain, explain why each item matters, and connect you with installers who will put all of it in writing.
Start with the roof. Find the age of the roof covering and get an honest read on how many years it has left, because panels sitting on a roof you replace in a few years means paying a crew to take the array off and put it back. Then pull twelve months of utility bills. A system is sized against what you actually used, season by season, and a proposal built on one summer bill or a rough guess is a proposal built on nothing at all.
Next, look at the roof itself: which directions the planes face, how steep they are, and what shades them at nine in the morning and at four in the afternoon. Orientation, pitch, and shading drive production more than anything on the equipment list. Finally, call your own utility and ask in plain terms how they credit power you export and what terms new systems are enrolled under today. How exported power is credited changes the economics materially, and that answer is the utility's to give, not a salesperson's.
We connect homeowners with residential solar installers across the four counties where most of Utah's population lives: Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, and Weber. That covers Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Sandy, Draper, and South Jordan; Provo, Orem, Lehi, American Fork, and Spanish Fork; Bountiful, Layton, Kaysville, and Farmington; and Ogden, Roy, and Clearfield, along with the smaller communities in between them. If your address is on the Wasatch Front and the house is yours, start with a call.
No. Solar 801 is a referral service. We take your information, match it against installers working in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, and Weber counties, and hand you to the people who do the design, permitting, and installation. It also means we have no system of our own to sell you, which is why we can comfortably say that waiting, replacing a roof first, or doing nothing are all real answers.
Not honestly, and neither can anyone who has not seen your roof, your usage, and your utility's current terms. Cost depends on how much system your usage calls for, how complicated the roof is, whether your electrical panel needs work, and whether storage is involved. Savings depend on how your utility credits exported power. Any number offered before those are known is a sales number, not an estimate.
Incentives for residential solar exist, and they change. Amounts, eligibility rules, and expiration dates all move, and we will not quote you a figure we cannot verify for your situation in the year you install. Confirm current federal terms against IRS guidance, confirm state terms against current Utah state guidance, and talk to a tax professional about what you can actually claim before you count any of it in your math.
It is common in Utah, and it is a warning sign. A rooftop system is long-lived equipment attached to your house, usually alongside a long financing agreement. Nothing about that gets meaningfully cheaper because you sign before midnight. A price that only exists under a deadline is a technique rather than a price. Take the paperwork, thank them, and have it reviewed on your own schedule.
Panels produce less here in winter. Days are short, sun angles are low, snow can sit on an array until it slides or melts, and inversion cuts the light reaching your roof for stretches at a time. None of that makes solar unworkable. It means annual production is not spread evenly across the year, so a proposal should show you the monthly shape rather than one annual figure. Ask how winter was modeled.
No door knocking, and no discount that expires tonight.
Ask Before You SignTwelve months of usage and the age of your roof covering are all we need to begin.