Residential Solar Installation Across the Wasatch Front

A grid-tied rooftop system is a construction project attached to your house and a long-term relationship with your utility. The work runs from a site assessment and structural check through design, permitting with your city or county, installation, inspection, and interconnection approval before the system is allowed to turn on. We connect you with installers doing that work across Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, and Weber counties.

The part that deserves your attention is the design. Sizing comes out of twelve months of actual usage, and the layout comes out of which roof planes you have, how they are oriented, how steep they are, and what shades them through the day. Two proposals for the same house can differ substantially, and the only way to see why is to make both installers put their equipment list, production assumptions, and warranty terms in writing.

What a full installation actually includes

• Site and structural assessment. Someone gets on the roof, checks the covering, the framing, and the attachment points, and confirms the array can be mounted without compromising the structure or the roof's remaining life.
• Usage-based system sizing. Twelve months of billing history sets the target. Sizing to one season, a square-footage rule of thumb, or a monthly payment you mentioned is not sizing, and you are allowed to ask which one happened.
• Shading and production modeling. Orientation, pitch, and obstructions turn into a month-by-month production estimate. Ask which assumptions the model used, and ask to see the winter months separately from the annual total.
• Electrical panel and service review. Your main panel has to accept the system safely. Some do as they are and some need work, and learning that during installation rather than during design is how change orders appear.
• Permits and inspections. Your city or county permits the work and inspects it. Requirements and timelines vary by jurisdiction along the Wasatch Front, and this stage is normal, non-negotiable, and worth asking about early.
• Utility interconnection approval. Your utility has to authorize the system before it can operate. Confirm with them directly how exported power is credited under the terms available to new systems now, not the terms someone remembers.

How the process runs, from first call to switched on

1. You send usage and roof details. Twelve months of bills, the age of the roof covering, and anything you already know about shading. That is enough to start a real conversation and to filter out an imaginary one.
2. Design and written proposal. The installer produces a layout, an itemized equipment list, production assumptions, warranty terms, and the ownership or financing structure. If any of those is missing, the proposal is not yet comparable to another one.
3. Permitting and utility application. Paperwork goes to your jurisdiction and to your utility. This takes time nobody in the transaction controls, so build it into your expectations instead of reading a delay here as a red flag.
4. Installation, inspection, and turn-on. Crews mount racking and modules, run conduit, and tie into your electrical panel. Inspection and utility authorization follow, and only then does the system legally begin producing for your house.

What drives the cost

We do not publish prices, because a price with no roof and no usage attached to it is fiction. What moves the number is how much system your past usage actually calls for; roof complexity, pitch, and how many separate planes the array has to be split across; the condition of your electrical service and whether it needs upgrading; whether storage is included; and how the purchase is structured, since owning outright, financing, leasing, and a power purchase agreement are different products with different long-term consequences. Ask each installer to break their number into those pieces, and compare the pieces rather than the totals.

Questions people ask