A system designed around your roof, not a catalog
Every Northstar home design starts with your usage and your rafters. Here is exactly what we install, how you pay for it, and which incentives your state hands back.
Get a free quoteSix stages, eight to twelve weeks, one project manager
- STEP 1
Utility bill review
We model 12 months of usage and your utility's rate structure.
- STEP 2
Roof + shade analysis
Satellite imagery, pitch, azimuth, and tree shading down to the panel.
- STEP 3
Site visit
Rafters, attic run, main panel capacity, and a written design you keep.
- STEP 4
Permitting
Town building and electrical permits, HOA letters, historic district filings.
- STEP 5
Installation
One to two days on the roof. Flashed penetrations, tidy conduit, no mess.
- STEP 6
Inspection + PTO
Town inspection and utility permission to operate, then we flip the switch.
Panels, inverters, and batteries we'd put on our own houses
Panels
All-black 425–460 W monocrystalline modules from REC and Qcells. 25-year product and performance warranties, rated for 5,400 Pa New England snow load.
Inverters
Enphase microinverters standard: per-panel monitoring, better output under maple shade, and no single point of failure.
Batteries
Tesla Powerwall 3 and Enphase IQ Battery 5P. Whole-home or essentials-only backup, sized for multi-day winter outages.
New England pays you to go solar. We file the paperwork.
Massachusetts
- 30% federal credit
- MA SMART production payments
- $1,000 state credit (Sched. EC)
- Net metering + no sales tax
Connecticut
- 30% federal credit
- Residential Renewable Energy Solutions buy-all or netting tariff
- Sales & property tax exemption
Rhode Island
- 30% federal credit
- REG performance-based incentive
- Renewable Energy Fund grants
- Property tax exemption
New Hampshire
- 30% federal credit
- NHSaves residential rebate
- Net metering
- Municipal property tax exemptions
Maine
- 30% federal credit
- Net energy billing (kWh credits)
- Efficiency Maine battery incentives
Vermont
- 30% federal credit
- Standard-offer net metering adder
- Sales tax exemption
- Battery bring-your-own programs
Program availability and payment rates change; your proposal reflects the incentives open on the day we design your system.
What could solar save your household?
Massachusetts utility average: 0.33 $/kWh
- Estimated 25-year savings
- $63,098
- Year-one savings
- $1,536
- System size
- 5.9 kW
Modeled on 86% offset, 3.9% annual utility escalation, and the 30% federal credit applied to financed systems. Your design gets exact figures.
Own it, finance it, or let us own it
$0-down solar loan. Fixed rates, 10–25 year terms, no dealer fee games. You own the array, claim the 30% federal credit, and collect SMART or REG payments. Most New England homeowners see a monthly payment below the utility bill it replaces.
Cash purchase. Best lifetime return, payback typically in seven to nine years at current regional rates, and no lien on the property.
Lease / PPA. We own, insure, monitor, and maintain the system. You buy the power below utility rates on a fixed escalator and can transfer the agreement when you sell.
Roof work included. If your shingles have fewer than ten years left, we can roll a full re-roof of the array section into the same financing.