The questions people ask at the kitchen table.

No. The residential clean energy credit under section 25D was terminated for expenditures made after December 31, 2025. A system placed in service in 2026 does not qualify. Anyone still quoting it is either behind or hoping you are.

Three things that matter. The SuSI incentive pays you per megawatt-hour your system generates for fifteen years, at a rate locked when your project registers. Net metering credits exported power at the full retail rate. Solar equipment is exempt from the 6.625% sales tax, and the value the panels add to your home is exempt from property tax. We put all of it in your written proposal with the registration date it is based on.

If the roof has under ten years left, yes. Panels last twenty-five to thirty years. Taking an array off and putting it back on later costs roughly $1,500 to $4,000 depending on system size and roof complexity, plus the risk of a re-permit. Doing both at once is one mobilization, one crew, one warranty.

Typically $1,500 to $4,000. The variables are system size, roof pitch and complexity, whether any racking or flashing needs replacing, and whether the original installer left the array in a serviceable condition. We quote it after we look at it, not before.

Install is usually one to two days on the roof. The full timeline from signature to permission to operate runs four to ten weeks in New Jersey, and almost all of that is township permitting and utility interconnection. We file both. Our recent median from permit approval to PTO is about twelve business days.

Usually yes. Pull together your warranty paperwork, inverter brand, panel model, and original contract. Panel and inverter manufacturers warranty their own hardware independently of whoever installed it, so those protections often survive. We can assess the array, take over monitoring, and service it going forward.

It depends entirely on your contract. Most leases run twenty to twenty-five years with early termination fees. The realistic exits are buying out the remaining value, transferring the lease to the buyer when you sell, or negotiating with the leasing company. If buying it out and owning the system makes financial sense, we will show you the math either way.

Not by themselves. Grid-tied systems shut down automatically in an outage to protect utility line workers. Adding a Tesla Powerwall or Enphase IQ Battery solves it. In our service area the case for storage is nor easters and summer thunderstorm outages more than anything else.

Yes, and it is common. Which battery makes sense depends on your existing inverter. We check that first, because retrofitting the wrong pairing gets expensive.

If you own it outright it is part of the house and generally helps at resale. If it is a lease or a PPA, the agreement transfers to the buyer, which means your buyer has to qualify and agree to it. We will tell you which situation you are in before you list.

New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor license 13VH12164800. General liability and workers compensation, certificates available on request before we start. Ask every contractor you meet for both. In New Jersey it is your right to see them.

The roofing and solar crews are ours. On the rare specialty scope where we bring in a licensed trade, such as certain electrical service upgrades, we tell you who and why in writing before the job starts.