Site Assessments

Get an Educational Solar Site Assessment

Solar Site Assessments are a great way to learn about your houses viability for a solar installation, either solar electric, solar hot water or solar air heat. Our site assessments will focus mostly on one technology, unless you purchase a second technology for $30 extra dollars. Although during your site assessments you will still learn about your solar resource on your property and gain valuable knowledge about solar and energy efficiency in general. It is a very valuable experience and your first step to becoming a solar homeowner!

 Being able to provide a low cost, $90 third party site assessment is one of the keys to the Make Mine Solar program - www.makeminesolar.org. Solar site assessments are usually $250, which is usually a non-refundable amount if the home is not suitable for solar.

Your site assessment will consist of:

1. Solar Pathfinder Reading


2. Digital Documentation of Site Characteristics
   
   
   • Solar Window 
   • Potential obstacles (identifying structures/trees)
   • Structural mounting locations on the exterior 
   • Interior connection points from exterior to water heater


3. Client Interview
   
   
   • Share results of assessment 
   • Determine client’s goals and motivation for solar thermal system 
   • Find out how they learned about the program 
   • Identify any pertinent remodeling or structural improvement plans (i.e. new roofing) 
   • Answer questions


4. Education about Effective Energy Usage
        
   • Water and energy conservation steps  
   • Simple and significant energy performance upgrades to structure
   • Energy Audits and supporting programs 
   • Discuss environmental impacts 
   • Explain financial benefits/programs associated with energy efficiency and renewable energy systems

Once the site assessment is completed, and the site is deemed solar ready, the participant will be given a list of our qualified installers. Depending on the level of concentrated local interest, an installer meet and greet may be scheduled with the assistance of the partnering neighborhood group to facilitate meeting local solar installers.

If you would like to sign up for a site assessment please go here to pay for your Site Assessment. We will have one of our site assessors contact you right away to schedule your visit.

Click here to pay for your Site Assessment

For one technology - Site Assessments are now:

$90 for Residential

$150 for Commercial

To add on a Second Technology (either solar air heat or solar hot water) - Add $30

Before you get a site assessment we ask that you

join our MN Energy Challenge Team by clicking here