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Marisol Vega
3 weeks ago
Three companies gave us monthly payments. Daylight gave us a one-page sheet with the actual system price, the loan terms, and the payback math — before anyone came to the house. That's why they got the job.
Riverside · Moreno Valley · The Inland Empire
Your Power Bill Isn't Coming Back Down.
SCE's rates jumped again — and the 4–9pm window is priced exactly when your AC works hardest. Sixty seconds of taps and we'll run what solar and storage would really do for your house: every number in writing, before anyone visits.
Licensed & insured Every number in writing We'll say "no sale" when it doesn't pencil
The Daylight Deal: every number in writing · 30-day price lock
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What's your summer electric bill hitting?
A rough number is fine — this is the whole ballgame.
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Marisol Vega
3 weeks ago
Three companies gave us monthly payments. Daylight gave us a one-page sheet with the actual system price, the loan terms, and the payback math — before anyone came to the house. That's why they got the job.
Locally owned & operated | Licensed & insured | Serving the entire Inland Empire
The Daylight Deal
Six Promises. Zero Fine-Print Games.
Other companies stack incentives. We stack the protections that make a 25-year decision safe — because in this market, the paperwork you can read is the incentive.
Cash price AND financed price, side by side
The gap between them is the dealer fee everyone else hides inside a “low monthly payment.” On our quote, it’s printed.
Designed for the utility that actually bills you
SCE’s NEM 3.0, Riverside’s RPU, Moreno Valley Utility, Colton, Banning — the math changes at the city line. Your design follows your bill’s rules.
25-year math with visible assumptions
Every savings projection states its assumed utility rates, year by year. “Up to” is not a number.
No escalator — in bold print
Payments that climb every year for 25 years are how this industry mints regret. Our default structures don’t escalate, ever.
The Honest Verdict
If solar doesn’t pencil for your house, we say so — in writing — and you keep the full analysis. A company that can’t say no can’t be trusted saying yes.
Locked for 30 days
A real offer survives the night. Our numbers are good tomorrow, next week, and next month — countdown clocks are for deals that can’t survive daylight.
The question no salesperson asks
What's your current plan costing you?
$320/mo
Over the next
Each bar = what those five years cost. Notice which way the bars go.
You'll hand the utility about
$183,272
even frozen at today's rates: $96,000
And in year 26 you'll own
$0
of it. No equipment, no equity, no end date.
That's renting power. Owning it means a system sized to your actual usage, a payment that ends, and equipment that's yours on day one. What's that number for your house? That's exactly what we put in writing — before anyone visits.
Run staying vs. owning for my house →Assumes 5% average annual rate increases — conservative next to recent history: SCE's October 2025 increase alone was ~13%, with more filed through 2028. Your written quote states every assumption behind your real numbers.
Before anyone sells you anything
The Three Numbers On Your Bill
Solar isn't magic — it's arithmetic against a bill built from three parts. Understand them and every quote in your inbox (including ours) gets easier to judge.
≈35¢
The average rate — and climbing
SCE's average residential rate rose roughly 13% in one step in late 2025, to about 35¢ per kWh, with more increases proposed through 2028. Conservation nibbles; the trajectory bites.
4–9pm
The window priced against you
Time-of-use plans bill early evening — dinner, laundry, and the AC recovering from a 105° afternoon — at the day's highest rates. Summer peaks on some plans run past 50¢/kWh.
$24.15
The charge you can't conserve away
The fixed monthly Base Services Charge applies no matter how little you use. It's the part of the bill your thermostat discipline will never touch.
Here's the reframe that matters:you're already on a solar payment plan — it's just called an electric bill, it goes up every year, and after 25 years of paying it you own nothing. The design question is whether redirecting that same payment into equipment you own pencils for your house — and the answer belongs in writing.Figures are 2026 SCE residential values and change with rate cases. City-utility customers (Riverside RPU, Colton, Banning) have different — often friendlier — math.
Tile roofs. Triple-digit summers. This is home.
Designed For The Roofs We Grew Up Under
Tile-specific mounts, heat-rated hardware, and layouts drawn from your actual usage — because an Inland Empire roof is not a template.
Our Services
One accountable team for the whole electric side of your home — designed off your real usage, never a template.
Residential Solar
Right-sized rooftop systems designed off your actual usage — with every number in writing before you sign.
Learn MoreBattery Storage
Store your midday solar, spend it during 4–9pm peak rates, and keep the lights on when the grid goes down.
Learn MoreSolar + New Roof
If your roof has under 10 good years left, re-roofing under the panels now beats paying to remove and reinstall later.
Learn MoreEV Charger Install
Level 2 charging installed right — permitted, load-calculated, and timed to charge on your cheapest rate hours.
Learn MoreMain Panel Upgrade
Older 100-amp panels can't carry a modern electric home. We upgrade, permit, and coordinate with SCE.
Learn MoreSolar Repair & Rescue
Installer disappeared? Production down? Inverter dark? We service systems we didn't install — no lectures, just fixes.
Learn MoreTalk To A Human
Real questions deserve real answers — no scripts, no pressure. Tap to call now.
(951) 555-0187
Every quote we write follows
The Daylight Standard
Ten written commitments that make a solar contract readable — the whole price on page one, no escalator games, no lien surprises, and a company that will tell you not to buy when the math says so. Bring the ten questions to any solar company. Especially us.
- Price In Writing First
- No Escalator Games
- Honest 'No-Sale' Verdicts
Whole Price, Page One
One Warranty Chain
Utility-Matched Design
A contract you can read in daylight is the entire brand. It's in the name.
Programs you may qualify for
More Than A Quote
Tell us what applies to you in the 60-second check and we match you automatically — no coupon codes, no hoops.
Heroes Priority Program
For those who show up for everyone else
Active military, veterans, first responders, teachers, and nurses get priority install scheduling — and we donate $500 in your name to the school, station, or unit you choose.
Verified at consult · stacks with any written quote
Solar Rescue Credit
Orphaned system? Your diagnosis pays you back
If your installer vanished, our full system audit and production report is credited 100% toward any repair or upgrade we do. You learn the truth about your system either way.
Applies to systems we didn’t install · no lectures included
The Bill-Beat Pledge
If we can’t beat your bill, we’ll say so
If an honestly designed system can’t deliver a payment below your current average electric cost, we tell you to wait — in writing — and what would have to change for the math to work.
The no-sale verdict, guaranteed on paper
See which programs I qualify for
Program benefits require qualification and are confirmed in your written quote. Availability may vary by location and home.
Why local wins in solar
National quotes run ~10% higher.
Marketplace data shows national installers averaging about 10% above local companies for the same hardware — door-to-door commissions have to come from somewhere.
We know which utility bills you.
SCE, Riverside's RPU, Moreno Valley Utility, Colton, Banning — the design rules change at the city line, and quoting the wrong ones is the most common IE solar mistake.
We're here after the install.
The IE is full of orphaned systems whose installers vanished. Our service department fixes them — which tells you how we think about year 15 of your warranty.
Inland Empire Local, On Purpose
Daylight Solardesigns and installs solar, storage, and the electrical work underneath them across Riverside and San Bernardino counties. No fly-in sales crews, no call centers, no "area manager" three states away — a local team that answers to its neighbors, because its neighbors know where we work.
Consultants Paid For Accuracy, Not Tonnage.
Nobody here earns more by selling you a bigger system than your usage supports. That one incentive choice explains most of how we behave.
Licensed, Insured, and Verifiable.
Check any California contractor at the CSLB before signing — including us. We put the license number on everything because you should be looking it up.
Fast Answers Across the Metro.
Riverside, Moreno Valley, Corona, Fontana, Menifee, Temecula, and every community between — consults scheduled fast, numbers delivered faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
Often yes — but the honest answer depends on your bill size, which utility serves you, and whether you pair battery storage. Under NEM 3.0, SCE credits exported power at a fraction of what you pay to buy it back, so storage usually makes the math work. City of Riverside homes on RPU have friendlier rules. We run your real numbers and tell you straight — even when the answer is 'not yet.'
Local 2026 market data runs around $2.29 per watt installed — roughly $20,000 for a typical 8–9 kW system before add-ons, with batteries adding a real five-figure line item. Your written quote shows the full cash price, the financed price, and the difference between them, so dealer fees have nowhere to hide.
We serve the entire Inland Empire — Riverside, Moreno Valley, Corona, Fontana, Menifee, Temecula, Murrieta, Eastvale, and the surrounding communities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Everything is in writing before you sign: system price, monthly payment, escalator (we don't use one), rate assumptions behind the savings math, equipment models, and who holds every warranty. If a number isn't on the page, it doesn't exist.
The 30% federal credit for homeowner-owned systems expired for installations placed in service after December 31, 2025. Any company quoting it on a 2026 owned system is out of date — and that's worth knowing about them. We quote current law only.
Yes — orphaned systems are a core service, not a favor. We diagnose and repair systems we didn't install, get monitoring back online, and handle manufacturer warranty claims where they apply.
Yes — cash, loan, and third-party options, compared honestly side by side, including the dealer-fee difference between cash and financed pricing. You pick the column that fits your life; we'll tell you what we'd do in your seat.
Design and paperwork take days; the city permit and utility steps set the calendar, which we manage and keep you posted on weekly. The install itself is typically one to two days on your roof.
Solar Installer Vanished? You're Not Stuck.
Dead inverter, red lights, a monitoring app that stopped updating — and a phone number that stopped answering. We service systems we didn't install, and we'll tell you what yours is actually producing.
What our clients say about us
4.9
Google Reviews · 312 reviews
Why homeowners choose Daylight
Consistently praised for written prices that don’t move, designs that match the utility actually billing the home, and clean, on-schedule installs — with straight answers even when the answer is “don’t buy solar yet.”
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David Cortez
a month ago
Our SCE bill was hitting $480 in July. The battery design covers our whole 4–9pm window now and the install crew was clean, on schedule, and walked me through the monitoring app before they left.
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Angela Whitfield
a month ago
Honest company. They told my mother solar did NOT make sense on her small bill and fixed her orphaned system's inverter instead. Who does that? These guys.
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Ramiro Cantú
2 months ago
We're in Riverside city on RPU and they actually knew what that meant — designed solar-only, no battery upsell, because our export credits are different. Every other quote tried to sell us storage we didn't need.
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Jessica Boone
2 months ago
Panels plus a new roof in one project in Menifee. One crew, one warranty conversation, no finger-pointing. The paperwork was large print and plain English, exactly like they promise.
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Tomás Herrera
3 months ago
EV charger and panel upgrade quoted up front with the solar — no surprise change orders halfway through. System's been producing right at the modeled numbers all summer.
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