Go Solar With Confidence
A homeowner’s guide to understanding the solar decision before choosing a system.
Solar can be a smart choice—but what makes sense depends on your home, electricity use, future plans, finances and what you want solar to accomplish.
Go Solar With Confidence was written to help you understand the questions worth asking before comparing proposals, choosing equipment or signing a long-term agreement.
Understand the questions. Evaluate the answers. Make your own decision.
Why I Wrote Go Solar With Confidence
After years of helping homeowners navigate solar, I kept seeing the same problem: people were being asked to make important decisions before they really understood what they were choosing.
A proposal can give you equipment, production estimates, financing and costs. But before you can evaluate those answers, it helps to understand how solar works, what could affect your home, what the proposal is actually telling you, and what questions are worth asking.
I wrote Go Solar With Confidence to give homeowners that starting point. The book explains the basics of how solar works, helps you identify potential roadblocks, walks you through what to look for in a solar proposal, and helps you understand the questions worth asking the people you may choose to work with.
The goal isn’t to turn you into a solar expert. It’s to give you enough understanding to evaluate what you’re being offered, ask informed questions, and make up your own mind about what makes sense for your home.
What You’ll Learn
How Solar Works
Understand the basics of a home solar system, how electricity production and use fit together, and the factors that can affect what may work for your home.
How to Read a Solar Proposal
Learn what to look for beyond the monthly payment—including system assumptions, equipment, production estimates, costs, and financing.
What Could Affect Your Plans
Learn about some of the practical issues and potential roadblocks worth understanding before you move forward.
What Questions to Ask
Understand the questions worth asking solar professionals so you can better evaluate the information, recommendations and people you’re considering working with.
The goal isn’t to tell you what to buy. It’s to help you understand what you’re looking at when it’s time to choose.
Who This Book Is For
You don’t need to be ready to install solar to benefit from understanding the decision.
You’re Starting to Explore Solar
You want to understand how solar and battery storage work, what may affect your home, and what you should know before talking with solar companies.
You’re Comparing Proposals
You already have numbers, equipment, and financing options in front of you and want to understand what they mean—and what may be missing.
You Want to Know What to Ask
You want to understand which questions are worth asking about the system, the proposal, and the people you may choose to work with.
You’re Not Sure Solar Is Right for You
You want enough information to make up your own mind about moving forward, waiting, or deciding solar isn’t right for your home.
Understanding solar doesn’t obligate you to buy it. It simply helps you make up your own mind.
What Readers Say
Readers describe Go Solar With Confidence as clear, practical and useful for understanding solar before making a decision.
“Takes the Mystery Out of Going Solar”
★★★★★
“After reading this book you will feel like you went to Solar 101 Bootcamp! … complex subjects are broken down into easy-to-understand facts.”
— Verified Amazon purchaser
“Comprehensive, informative, and clear.”
★★★★★
“Her book provides great guidance in language any reader will appreciate. She helps homeowners make the right choices, the wise choices, for themselves and their home.”
— John B, Verified Amazon purchaser
“Extremely helpful for any homeowner considering solar”
★★★★★
“Carol’s guide gives you all the information you need to make the best informed choice for your home, budget, and family.”
— Lisa P, Verified Amazon purchaser
You don’t need to know everything about solar. You need to know enough to ask the right questions.
Ready to Learn More About Solar?
Go Solar With Confidence gives you a practical way to understand how solar works, what to look for in a proposal, and what questions are worth asking before you decide what makes sense for your home.