Solar and Battery Storage in Santa Rosa, California: Your Path to Energy Independence
Protect Your Home during Power Outages and Rate Spikes with Sunrun
4,297
Blackouts that hit California from 2008 to 2017.1
+31%
Santa Rosa’s residential electricity rates vs. cities in other states.2
256
Average number of sunny days per year in Santa Rosa, CA.3
California is the best state to go solar in the U.S.4 As the costs of rooftop solar panels and home battery systems continue to plummet,4,5 it could be incredibly cost-effective to team up with a Santa Rosa solar company like Sunrun to gain energy independence. A switch to solar can give you protection during outages, more control over electricity bills, and lower home carbon emissions for decades.
How to Go Solar in Santa Rosa
As the leading residential solar and energy storage company in the U.S.,6 we work so you can get the peace of mind you deserve during outages and bill spikes. Find out which Sunrun solar plan, with or without a home battery in Santa Rosa, is the best match for your budget and energy needs.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has a net energy metering (NEM) program that could let you earn credits on your bill for the excess solar energy you produce and send to the grid.7 Net metering in Santa Rosa, California may help you save money on your future electric bills.
Solar with incentives
- Learn about the federal tax credit
- Find your ideal system and battery
- Get your cost to switch to solar
Solar Plans that Fit Your Unique Energy Needs
Solar Plans that Fit Your Unique Energy Needs
Each Sunrun solar plan offers unique advantages. Whether you choose a solar lease or a purchase plan along with an energy storage system, our goal is to ensure that you're completely satisfied with your Santa Rosa solar panel installation for decades. As one of the best solar installers in California, we’ll even take care of the paperwork for you whenever possible.
Monthly Plan
Monthly Plan
Lease new Sunrun solar panels in Santa Rosa for little to $0 down. Lock in predictable monthly payments and get our industry-leading Sunrun Guarantee.
Full Amount Lease
Full Amount Lease
Prepay for up to 25 years of solar energy in Santa Rosa for home use at the best price. Our Sunrun Guarantee also backs it.
System Purchase
System Purchase
Own a Santa Rosa home solar system and you could build home value. You may be eligible for California solar incentives, like the federal solar tax credit,* a property tax exclusion, and a solar rebate for battery storage.8
Solar + Brightbox™
Add Brightbox, Sunrun’s battery storage service, to your solar installation in Santa Rosa. This can help keep you powered during outages, cloudy days, rainy afternoons, at night, or when Time-of-Use (TOU) rates spike.9
Climate change and utility neglect have made wildfires and related outages more common across California.
Electric companies are rolling out Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), which leave millions of homes without electricity for hours or days at a time.
Brightbox can help you back up your entire home with a Tesla Powerwall, or you can back up just the rooms you need with an LG Chem solar battery.**
When the sun is out, Brightbox can store clean and affordable back-up power for later use.
Brightbox is the Santa Rosa battery storage solution that puts you in control. It can turn on during an outage and will work to recharge until the grid's restored.
No fuel, no fumes, no noise, no hassle. Brightbox is a superior energy storage solution compared to loud and dirty generators.
You can monitor your Santa Rosa solar power production and storage daily with the online dashboard and mobile app.
All monthly plans include 24/7 proactive monitoring and maintenance to ensure your home solar energy system runs smoothly. This perk sets Brightbox apart from other solar batteries in Santa Rosa.
Have You Heard about California's Clean Energy Goals?
100%
State electricity generation that will come from clean and renewable energy sources by 2045.10
80%
California’s cut in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below 1990 levels by 2050.11
When you create and store your own clean energy in Santa Rosa, you can reduce your dependence on toxic, dangerous fossil fuels. This will help build a more modern and more resilient enregy system that runs on solar power made in California. Ready to take the first step towards a brighter energy future? Use our Product Selector or request a free quote to get one-on-one service from our expert Solar Advisors. Together we can keep California clean and vibrant for generations to come.
Why Choose Sunrun in Santa Rosa?
Why Choose Sunrun in Santa Rosa?
Since 2007, hundreds of thousands of people have chosen Sunrun to join the clean energy revolution. To date, our customers’ solar panel systems have generated billions of kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean, renewable energy and kept millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from entering the atmosphere. This is equivalent to preventing billions of pounds of coal or millions of gallons of gasoline from burning.12
American families help us create a better energy future for the whole nation, one home solar panel installation at a time.
See what people say about their Sunrun solar panel and battery systems.
Northern California
SOURCES:
1. Eaton Blackout Tracker Annual Report
2. Santa Rosa, CA electricity prices
3. Santa Rosa, CA annual sunny days
4. California solar state rank and solar price drop
5. California battery storage price drop
6. Sunrun ranked as leading residential solar-plus-storage vendor
7. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) net energy metering (NEM) program
8. California solar incentives
9. PG&E Time-of-Use (TOU) rate plan
10. California 100% Clean Energy Act (Senate Bill 100)
11. California Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act (Senate Bill 350)
*We recommend contacting a tax professional to accurately determine the impact of the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) on your federal taxes.
**One Tesla Powerwall stores 13.5 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of usable electricity, which can be used to back up the home for a day. An LG Chem solar battery holds 9.8 kWh, which can be used to back up essential parts of the home from 8 to 12 hours.