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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

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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

Martin Acres, Boulder, 2025

A 1958 ranch that needed the attic before the roof

The homeowners asked for 11 kW. The blower door said 12.6 ACH50. We sealed and insulated first, then installed 6.8 kW and beat their original target bill.

Array
6.8 kW DC, 16 modules at 425 W
Inverter
5.7 kW AC string with DC optimisers
ACH50 before and after
12.6 to 5.1
A completed GreenLeaf Home Energy project in Martin Acres, BoulderMartin Acres, Boulder

How it went

The decisions, in order

01

What they asked for

An 11 kW array, based on an online estimate that had sized the system from roof area rather than from consumption. The house used 9,900 kWh and 720 therms in the preceding twelve months, so the array would have exported a third of its output at a lower credit value while the house carried on leaking heat.

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What the test found

12.6 air changes per hour at 50 pascals. Thermal imaging showed the usual 1950s picture: open top plates above the interior partitions, eleven uncapped can lights, an uninsulated attic hatch and a rim joist that was essentially open to the outdoors along the north wall.

03

What we did instead

Two days of air sealing, then blown cellulose to R-60 and two inches of closed-cell foam at the rim. Retest came in at 5.1 ACH50. Only then did we design the array, at 6.8 kW DC, which covered 92 percent of the reduced consumption.

04

The result

The envelope work cost $4,900 and the smaller array saved roughly $11,600 against the original proposal. Measured first-year production was 9,640 kWh against a model of 9,440, and gas use dropped 31 percent (all sample figures).

What the homeowner said

They talked us out of half the system we went in asking for, and our bills are lower than the bigger one was supposed to deliver. That is not a sales pitch you hear often.

Dana and Curtis Ochoa, Martin Acres

9,640 kWh in year one against a modelled 9,440 kWh. Variance plus 2.1 percent.

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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