Low Sun Solar Co. · Rooftop & ground arrays · Driftmoor, Halden County & the Kettle Range · Lic. SV-3341
We quote December, not June.
Anybody can size an array off a July bill. Low Sun models your worst month — the three-week cloud deck off the Range, the frost, the solstice angle — and guarantees the year around it. Eleven winters of fleet production data sit under every number we print, and the December line is in the contract before the deposit is.
Every contract carries a December line · 11 winters of fleet data · string or micro, chosen by the roof · (555) 016-9074
Why the shop exists
The December clause
A solar model built on annual averages hides the month you actually watch the meter. Ours is month-by-month from your own twelve bills, winter-weighted: snow weeks counted, the cloud deck priced in, the batteries sized to the solstice instead of the equinox. The quote that comes out is smaller than a summer shop would give you — and it is the one that holds.
95% of a winter-first model
The production guarantee is written against the same winter-weighted model we quote from — not a brochure map. If the year comes in under 95% of it, the shortfall is credited at your net-metering rate every March until it does. Two payouts in eleven winters; both were our sizing errors, both fixed with hardware.
Services & rates
Winter-first pricing, before incentives
Cash prices from last winter’s Halden County installs — permits, interconnection filing and the ten-year workmanship warranty already inside the number, with the 30% federal credit still to come off it. The shade model at the free survey decides which row your roof earns, and the December line rides on top of whichever you pick.
6 kW rooftop · string inverter$16,400 installed
24 panels, one serviceable inverter on the garage wall — the honest fit for a clean south plane
9 kW rooftop · microinverters$23,700 installed
Panel-by-panel conversion for cottonwood rows, dormers and chimneys
14 kW ground mount + battery$38,900 installed
Frost-footed piers, winter tilt, 13.5 kWh LFP storage with low-temp charge protection
Battery retrofit$12,300 installed
13.5 kWh cabinet, load subpanel, garage-wall placement for the cold months
String-to-micro conversion$2,850 typical
Re-quotable on any array we built: per-panel electronics where the shade arrived after us
The March true-up visitincluded
Production read against the model, snow-load check, torque audit — free, every year
2025 — 2026
Install wall, photographed in February
Six of the forty arrays Low Sun commissioned last year, shot on purpose in the worst light of the year — because that is when a model proves itself. Addresses on request; most owners open their monitoring app faster than their front door.
Fleet figures
What the winters actually did
How it goes
Survey to spring true-up
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Week 1
The winter-weighted survey
Drone flight, horizon trace, and twelve months of your bills read against eleven winters of fleet data. If the honest array is 6 kW against a summer shop’s 10, you hear it from us first — the survey is free precisely so it can say no.
Weeks 2–3
Permits & the utility
Building permit, interconnection filing, the HOA packet if your street has one. The December line, the model and the payback year are already in the contract you sign — three paragraphs, one number each.
Week 4
Install day
String or micro as the model decided. Flashed attachments, rail, torque to spec, and a thermal walk of the attic the next morning. Most rooftops are one day; ground mounts are two, weather permitting, and in January it sometimes does not.
Every March
The true-up
Production read against the model, line by line, with you holding the app. Under 95% and the shortfall is credited at your net-metering rate — the guarantee pays out in the month you can check it.
Before you call
Fair questions, cold answers
The five every Kettle Range kitchen table reaches by the second coffee. The shop line below answers seven to five, county-wide.
Does solar actually work in a Kettle Range winter?
Honestly: at 55 to 65 percent of summer output for a clean array, and our models say so in writing. December is the month you buy the array for. Anyone quoting you a June number and calling it a year is selling you half the truth — the December line in our contract is the other half, and it is the difference between a payback year and a payback decade.
String inverters or microinverters — which do you sell?
Whichever the roof argues for. One clean unshaded plane favours a string inverter: one serviceable part, lower cost per watt, a wiring diagram you can read on the garage wall. Cottonwood rows, dormers and chimneys favour micros panel by panel. We quote both off the same model, and about a third of our roofs end in micros. The roof decides, never the inventory.
What about snow on the panels?
Panels are glass at a tilt: snow sheds in a day of sun and the model already counts the weeks it sits. We do not sell brooms, we do not recommend climbing a January roof, and the production guarantee is written against a model that includes snow — so a normal Kettle winter cannot break it.
Do batteries work in the cold?
LFP chemistry does, with one rule: charging below freezing must be blocked, and a quality cabinet blocks it itself. We place batteries on the garage wall, not the shed, keep them above the charge floor, and size them to the solstice — the February outage load, not the July one.
What if December underperforms the model?
Nothing dramatic, which is the point. Every March we true the year up against the model; a miss under 95% is credited at your net-metering rate, and a miss caused by our sizing gets fixed with hardware at our cost. It has paid out twice in eleven winters, and both arrays have since beaten their models.
The county says
County kitchens, convinced in March
Two summer shops quoted me 10 kW and a payback that sounded like a lottery ticket. Low Sun modelled the cloud deck, quoted 6.4, and the December line said 61% of June — which is exactly what the app showed. Smaller array, honest number, and it has beaten the model both winters.
The cottonwoods predate the house and I refused them. Low Sun put micros on the east plane, modelled the shade panel by panel, and the contract’s December line was within two percent of the first real one. The March true-up visit is the most reassuring invoice-free hour of my year.
Our battery carried the well pump and the furnace board through the February ice storm while the county went dark. They had sized it to the solstice load — the word they used — and it held for nineteen hours. The garage wall diagram got us through the second outage without calling anybody.
Free winter-weighted survey anywhere in Halden County · (555) 016-9074 · december@lowsunsolar.example
Free survey
Get the December number for your roof
Send the address and a recent bill if you have it. The survey is free, the winter-weighted model takes three business days, and the fixed quote that follows carries the December line, the payback year and the 95% guarantee in the same three paragraphs. december@lowsunsolar.example