Residential Solar Services

Collaborative Solar can install a solar energy system on your home helping to realize the benefits of renewable energy. We can provide a free quote outlining how solar can fit your needs, site, and budget. The time is now to take control of your utility expenditures by installing a renewable energy system. As utility rates rise, your system will provide you with fixed-price clean energy for 25-years or more and greatly increases the value of your home.

Cheapest Watt

The cheapest watt is the watt that you do not use. Collaborative Electric & Solar will review your entire electrical system and assess electrical system loads to find where you spend your money. Once these source loads are identified, recommendations can be made as to reduce and/or offset you electrical consumption. This approach to residential design lends helps you to maximize your energy production and minimize consumption.

Tax Credits and Utility Rebates

Combining huge federal tax credits with utility company rebates makes a solar energy system on your home very affordable.

Federal Tax Credit. The Federal Government currently offers a 30% tax credit on a residential system. This tax credit can be extended over a two-year time period in order to fully realize the benefit.
Utility Rebates. Utility rebates vary by utility providers. Currently Xcel Energy offers $2.25 per watt cash rebate. This rebate is subject to change based on the utilities renewable energy portfolio requirements. This means that now is the time to install solar before the rebates disappear.

Saving Money

Besides receiving credits and rebates, a solar electric system provides free energy for up to 100% of your homes electric usage. In an economic environment where other investments are unsure, and investment in a renewable energy system will pay dividends for year to come. One thing to be sure of is that the cost of energy will continue to increase by a minimum of 5% a year. A payback on a residential system can be as fast as 6 years.

Free Quotes & Best Pricing Guarantee

Paramount to our business is installing the finest quality systems at the lowest cost possible. To ensure this, we will do a free site visit and solar analysis which provides you with the financial breakdown so that you can see the cost benefits. Our business model is centered by low overhead and value engineering, meaning ultimately our pricing beats qualified competitors. To prove this, show a quote from any other solar company and we'll beat it.

Service and Experience

Our company employes full-time Master Electrician who was a pioneer in the field of photovoltaics. Our knowledge base has been built over 15 years of commercial and residential electrical contracting. We always install adhere to strict National Electric Codes and NABCEP best practices for photovoltaics. All our systems undergo a 100-point system commissioning process, which means that no detail is overlooked providing you with the confidence that your system is professionally and safely installed.

It is our experience that managing customer's expectations is the best way to ensure satisfaction. From building aesthetics to system efficiency and design, we listen to your needs. Throughout the planning and installation, you have a single project manager who will be available to you and communicates the processes.

The Process

Call us to set-up your site visit analysis and free quote
Complete structural, electrical, and shading analysis (solar path)
System layout and design
Permitting
Rebate tracking
Installation and utility interconnection
Inspection and system commissioning

Complete Start to Finish

When you purchase a system through Collaborative Solar, we handle every aspect from permitting to engineering, and from installation to inspection. All the paperwork for rebates with your energy company are handled by your project manager. From beginning to end, we make solar installation a turn-key experience for you.