⚡ The Kelley Blue Book for Solar Assets

What Is Your Solar
Actually
Worth To You?

What did Jacquelyn or Andrew pay for their system?
Will you get your money back? What will it save or earn?
Those are real questions about value.

Existing solar, storage, or both
Working first release for DC, MD, WV, CT, MA, VA, SC, NC and RI. Your system inputs stay in the browser. See the calculation method.

My solar provider disappeared. WTF do I do?

Wall Street experience. Your side of the table.

Value starts with your questions.

Fair market value for tax purposes and what you mean by value can answer different questions. You want to know what people paid for a comparable system, whether you get your money back, and how much cash the system saves or throws off. An IRS-oriented valuation does not, by itself, answer all of that.

What did they pay?

Start with Jacquelyn or Andrew. Then compare system size, equipment, location, financing, incentives and the rights included in the deal.

Do I get my money back?

Look at the price against the benefits and costs left in the system. For a buyout, look separately at the contract payments you stop making.

What does it save or earn?

Electricity savings, export credits and incentives can belong to different people. Value the benefits that actually come with your system and your deal.

Our approach draws on more than 20 years of real-world solar, battery and home-system deals. Our experience spans a single house in a low-income community, portfolios of hundreds of thousands of systems across states, and multibillion-dollar utility-scale projects, at every level of financial sophistication.

We are bringing Wall Street deal-making experience to your war against “the man.” Numbers and assumptions you can see, question and bring to the negotiating table.

Start today with the remaining-benefit and buyout calculator. See the annual savings, cash flows and contract payments behind your estimate.

Illustrative ticker — not current market data
DC SREC $387/MWh ↑2.1%
MD SREC $84/MWh ↑0.8%
NJ SREC $211/MWh ↓1.2%
MA SMART $0.14/kWh ↑0.3%
CT RRES $0.299/kWh —
RI REF $0.31/kWh ↑0.5%
Avg PPA Rate $0.17/kWh ↓0.4%
30-Yr DCF Rate 7.2% —
ITC 30% ↑ (IRA)
Sunrun Churn 6.2% ↑
DC SREC $387/MWh ↑2.1%
MD SREC $84/MWh ↑0.8%
NJ SREC $211/MWh ↓1.2%
MA SMART $0.14/kWh ↑0.3%
CT RRES $0.299/kWh —
RI REF $0.31/kWh ↑0.5%
Avg PPA Rate $0.17/kWh ↓0.4%
30-Yr DCF Rate 7.2% —
ITC 30% ↑ (IRA)
Sunrun Churn 6.2% ↑
3.2M
Solar contracts tracked
$18B
Asset value indexed
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Markets in the calculator
35yr
DCF model horizon

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You Had Nothing.

Solar companies price, trade, and refinance these contracts using institutional-grade DCF models. We built you one.

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Who asked us to stop

Built for Homeowners.
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The same companies that don't want you to know what your contract is actually worth.

SUNRUN
PALMETTO
SUNPOWER
SUNNOVA
TESLA ENERGY
VIVINT

What Happened
When They Knew.

"Sunrun told me buyout was $42,000. Solar Blue Book said $26,400. I showed them the report. They came down to $28,000 in 10 minutes."
Marcus T.
8.4kW · PPA · Baltimore, MD
"I was paying $0.21/kWh on a 2016 lease while my neighbor was getting solar for $0.11. The report showed me exactly how much I was overpaying and how to get out."
Linda R.
6.2kW · Lease · Silver Spring, MD
"My realtor had no idea what to do with the solar lease. Printed the Solar Blue Book report, put it in the disclosure packet, and it sold in a week."
Darnell & Kim W.
10.1kW · PPA · Prince George's Co., MD

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Pay What's Fair.

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