Stress-test a homeowner solar quote with your system cost, generation, rates, maintenance, financing, and incentive assumptions.
Quoted System Cost
25,000 $
Expected Annual Solar Generation
9,000 kWh/year
Generation Used in the Home
50 %
Avoided Import Electricity Rate
0.3 $ / kWh
Export Credit Rate
0.08 $ / kWh
Annual Maintenance and Monitoring
250 $ / year
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This calculator turns your homeowner solar quote assumptions into three labelled scenarios. With the illustrative defaults ($25,000 quoted cost, 9,000 kWh/year generation, 50% self-consumption, $0.30/kWh import rate, $0.08/kWh export credit, $250 annual maintenance, 10-year term at 8%, and no entered incentive), the model produces an illustrative monthly finance payment of about $303.32 and annual net values after finance of about -$2,845.43 (conservative), -$2,179.83 (expected), and -$1,377.43 (optimistic). Expected simple project payback before finance is about 17.1 years, while expected break-even after finance is not reached in this scenario. Replace every default with figures from your own quote, bills, and financing documents—the range is sensitivity analysis, not promised savings or quote validation.
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The estimate combines Quoted System Cost, Expected Annual Solar Generation, Generation Used in the Home and returns Net System Cost After Entered Incentive, Illustrative Monthly Finance Payment, Conservative Scenario Annual Net Value.
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