Terms of Use

Updated October 29, 2026 · By the Solar Installer Guide team

Solar Installer Guide provides information and referrals to help you compare local solar activity. These terms explain the site's role, the limits of the data and your responsibility for choosing an installer. We are not a contractor and do not sell, price or install solar. Questions about these terms can be sent through the contact page.

The short version

Public-data rankings describe installer activity and are not endorsements of an installer or its work.
You choose your installer and enter any solar contract directly with that installer after checking licenses and comparing quotes.
Referral fees support the service, while third-party sites apply their own terms when you follow their links.

Our role is information and referral

Solar Installer Guide is an information and referral service, not a contractor. We do not sell, price or install solar, and we do not promise the outcome of solar work. A referral introduces you to an installer.

Use the site to learn about recorded local activity and to request an introduction. The site's information does not provide a proposal for your home or make Solar Installer Guide the company performing the work. Any project price and scope must come from the installer you approach. Our comparison and referral role does not make us a party to your installation contract.

Rankings have data limits

Rankings come from public utility data and are not endorsements. The records can be incomplete or delayed. A place in the table describes recorded activity, rather than an assurance about workmanship, customer service or the outcome of your project.

Read the data as a starting point for your own research. A public record may not capture every project or the most recent work, and the ranking cannot settle whether a company fits your needs. Use the figures to prepare questions for installers. Check licenses and compare quotes before making a choice, even when a company has a large count in the table.

You choose and contract with the installer

Homeowners make their own decisions and enter contracts directly with installers. Check licenses and compare quotes before choosing. Reading a table or sending a referral request does not replace reviewing the proposal and contract for your home.

The decision about whom to hire remains yours. Review the installer's proposal and the terms of the contract you would sign with that installer. Solar Installer Guide provides information and a route to an introduction, while the installer provides the project offer. Questions about a proposed system, its scope or its price belong with the installer making that proposal.

A referral request and an installation agreement serve different purposes. The request starts contact; your agreement for solar work is made directly with the installer you choose. Check the license and compare quotes as part of that decision. Do not read an installer's position in a public-data table as a substitute for those checks or for reviewing your own project documents.

Referral fees and ranking order

Installers in the network pay referral fees. Rankings are never paid: their order comes from public utility data. A referral relationship therefore needs to be understood separately from the activity figures shown in the comparison.

The service has a financial relationship with installers in the network through referral fees. That relationship does not turn a table entry into an endorsement or make the site the contractor for a project. Use the recorded activity as information for your research, and make your own decision about contacting an installer, comparing proposals and entering a contract directly with that installer.

Other websites have their own terms

Third-party links, including links to CSLB, PG&E and Solar.com, take you to services governed by their own terms. Review the terms of the destination site when using it. These terms describe your use of Solar Installer Guide.

A link provides a way to reach another website, but it does not bring that website under these terms. The destination applies its own conditions to the services and information it provides. For example, using a contractor lookup or following a Solar.com link means using that separate site. Read the destination's terms for the conditions that apply to your activity there.

Content and limits of liability

Site content is provided as is, without warranties. Liability is limited to the extent the law allows. The information and referrals on the site do not amount to a promise about data completeness or the results of solar work.

The public data can be incomplete or delayed, and the site's comparison does not assure a particular result from an installer. Read the content with those limits in mind. The limitation of liability applies only to the extent the law allows; it does not claim to remove rights or limits that the law does not allow to be removed.

Use the site and forms responsibly

Do not scrape the site in a way that harms it. Do not submit false requests in someone else's name. These use limits apply to the site's information and forms, including requests intended to start contact with installers.

A form request is a way to begin a real inquiry, so do not use another person's name to send a false request. The same acceptable-use rule applies when interacting with the site's comparison pages: scraping must not harm the site. These limits address harmful collection and false submissions without changing the site's role as an information and referral service.

Changes and questions

Changes to these terms are posted on this page with the updated date. Review this page for the current terms. If you have a question about them, use the contact page form to reach Solar Installer Guide.

The revised terms and updated date will appear here when changes are made. You can return to this page to read the conditions that describe the service, referrals, external links and acceptable use. Direct questions about these terms through the contact page. Questions about an installer's proposal or installation contract should go to that installer, with whom you make your project agreement.

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