Solar at GreenKey won't be a sales pitch — it'll be a system: panels designed around your battery, your EV charging, and your utility's actual rates, by the Class A electrician who installs all of it. We launch when the credentials are complete, and not a day before.
Join the early-install list → Why wait for us?This is the single most important thing to understand before talking to any solar company in 2026.
Solar installation credentials are being completed ahead of launch, the same way we did it for EV charging and batteries: earn it, then sell it. Badges appear when they're real.
Solar panels are a commodity. A system where the panels feed the battery, the battery rides out peak rates, and the EV charges on the cheap window — designed by one contractor — is not.
Dominion's residential rates rose about $11/month in January 2026, with more filed for 2027 — and other Virginia utilities have double-digit increases pending. Owning your generation is a hedge; we'll quote it with real numbers when the time comes.
The value of every solar kilowatt-hour depends on who serves your address — and at some utilities, choosing solar means giving something else up.
Updated net metering (2026) keeps annual netting — your summer surplus still offsets your winter bills — with a small monthly fee and a modest export-rate change.
Net metering works alongside Dominion's Off-Peak Plan; credits land at the tier rates. That combination is exactly what we design for.
Net metering is available — but REC's time-of-use customers aren't eligible. If you're on (or want) the 3.8¢ overnight TOU rate, solar means choosing between the two.
That's a real design decision, and it changes the math. We'll run both paths before you commit to either.
TOU and net metering are mutually exclusive here too — and SEC's residential demand billing changes how solar pays back in ways most spreadsheets ignore.
SEC solar quotes need extra care. We'll pull your actual rate sheet before any number reaches your quote.
Net metering is available — and if your roof isn't right for panels, CVEC's Solar Share community-solar subscription is an option that needs no roof at all.
We'll tell you honestly if community solar beats panels at your address. Yes, even though we don't sell it.
Late 2027. We're completing the credentials and the integrated design program first — solar launches when it can be done right, not when it can be sold. Early-list members get priority scheduling and the first proposals.
When your panels make more power than your house is using, the surplus flows out to the grid and your meter banks a credit. Later — that night, or even months later — the credit offsets power you buy back. In most of Virginia the credit lands at or near the full retail rate with annual netting, meaning summer surplus can cover winter bills. But the exact rules differ by utility, and at some co-ops net metering can't combine with a time-of-use rate — the by-utility grid above covers the big four, and our Rates & Savings guide covers the rest.
Solar renewable energy certificates — a second, smaller way panels pay. For every 1,000 kWh your system generates, you earn one certificate, and Virginia's clean-energy law requires the big utilities to retire certificates like yours to meet their targets. That means yours can be sold, usually through an aggregator that handles the paperwork, as a modest ongoing side income. Prices fluctuate with the market, so when we quote solar in 2027, any SREC value in your proposal will be the current market price — not an optimistic projection baked into a payback chart.
For homeowner-owned systems, yes — it ended December 31, 2025, with no phase-down. Leases and PPAs can still capture a credit because a third party owns the system; that's why "30% off" ads still exist. Know which deal you're being offered.
Usually not. A battery earns its keep today — backup every time the grid drops, plus rate savings where plans allow — and the systems we install are solar-ready. Panels bolt on in 2027 without redoing anything.
You can, and some are fine. Ask them three questions first: what's the cash price versus the loan price? Who owns the system? And how does their design interact with your utility's actual rate plan? If any answer is fuzzy, you've learned something. Those are the questions our 2027 quotes will answer on page one.
We won't quote prices for a service we don't sell yet — that's the whole point of this page. When proposals open, every number in them will be real, current, and specific to your roof and your utility.
No spam, no obligation — just first access to proposals when they open, and priority scheduling when installs begin. Tell us about your home and mention "solar list"; a real person, usually Jonathan, will confirm you're on it.