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What we install

One crew for the envelope, the mechanicals and the array, so the numbers actually add up.

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Work out your own numbers

Every tool here runs in your browser on figures you can change. Nothing is emailed to us.

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The people doing the work

Eleven people, one warehouse on Pearl Parkway, and a service radius we can drive in under an hour.

Meet the crew

Southmoor Park, Longmont, 2024

A battery bought for the rate, not for the outages

No solar, no outage anxiety, just a time-of-use rate and 8.4 kWh a day moving out of the 3 to 7 pm window.

Storage
13.5 kWh usable, 5 kW continuous
Average on-peak kWh shifted
8.4 kWh per weekday
Value per shifted kWh
14.5 cents summer, 11.3 cents winter (sample rates)
A completed GreenLeaf Home Energy project in Southmoor Park, LongmontSouthmoor Park, Longmont

How it went

The decisions, in order

01

Free savings first

Before quoting anything we moved the dishwasher, the laundry and the car charging to after 9 pm and set the thermostat to pre-cool between 1 and 3 pm. That alone took $188 off the annual bill at the sample rates, with no equipment at all.

02

Then the arithmetic

What remained in the 3 to 7 pm window averaged 8.4 kWh a weekday. At an on-peak price of 23.77 cents and an off-peak price of 8.36 cents, and allowing 90 percent round-trip efficiency, each shifted kWh is worth 14.5 cents in summer.

03

Being straight about the payback

That is roughly $271 a year against an installed cost of $15,900. We told them plainly that arbitrage alone will never pay this back, and that they were buying resilience and rate insurance with a modest offset.

04

What changed their mind

Two outages in the preceding eighteen months, a home office and a chest freezer. They bought it anyway, with their eyes open, which is the only way we want anyone buying one.

What the homeowner said

They told us the payback did not work and then helped us buy it anyway for the reasons that did. I trust people who argue against their own invoice.

Hollis Yamamoto, Southmoor Park

8.4 kWh a weekday shifted out of the on-peak window, $271 modelled annual value.

Start with the test, not the quote

Three to four hours on site, a written report in five business days, and a recommendation that might well be to spend less than you planned.

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