US Solar Report is “Your Solar Advocate” because it’s exactly what the home solar industry needs, the unvarnished truth! The focus of this site is on the consumer, unlike the solar companies. Most of the information available online is either a solar company explaining all the benefits of solar and tax credits and offsetting your power bill. They never talk about the additional costs that so many unsuspecting buyers have endured.

Solar has been marketed in a manner that is similar to how automobiles. companies have made an art out of selling a payment instead of home solar. The sellers of home solar have used tactics that squeeze every ounce of the benefits, the profits that belong to the homeowner. The marketing of home solar has driven up the cost of solar for homeowners from the very beginning.

The way home solar has been marketed creates so many additional costs for the buyer that have nothing to do with solar. The following is a typical breakdown of what solar companies prices were and the additional costs.

Now it’s important to understand that these are the high-end examples from 2017 through 2019. Companies are really working hard to eliminate some of these costs to be competitive and stay in business. Unfortunately, they can’t break away from this business model because it’s so profitable.