Where our work stops, and why that protects you

Effective November 1, 2026

Center For Solar LLC is a non-licensed consulting firm. We provide consulting, financial feasibility analysis, performance analytics, procurement assistance, administrative permitting support, and sustainability advisory services. We don’t sell panels. We don’t install. We work for you.

This page sets out the scope of our services in plain terms: what we do, what we don’t, and how we hand off to licensed professionals. The two lists below this text are the short version. Our terms of service contain the binding language, and your engagement letter sets the scope of your project.

Why we publish our limits

Most firms in the solar business are paid when you buy something. Our limits are what make us useful: because we don’t design, install, finance, or broker anything, nothing we tell you is shaped by what we’d earn if you said yes. The trade-off is that some questions aren’t ours to answer. When that happens, we say so plainly and help you take a better question to the right person.

Where the line falls in each service

Solar energy consulting

We help you understand whether solar makes sense to explore, what to gather, and what to ask. In a land lease offer review, we compare commercial and financial terms such as rent, escalators, option payments, term length, and decommissioning security. We don’t interpret legal language or recommend signing. We organize the questions for your attorney.

Financial feasibility analysis

We build independent cash-flow comparisons, test the assumptions in proposals, and show how results change when rates, production, or financing terms change. Where tax credits or depreciation affect the numbers, we model the scenarios you and your CPA ask for. Your CPA decides what you can claim.

Performance analytics

We compare measured production with a weather-adjusted expectation, read monitoring exports, and point to where a shortfall seems to come from. We don’t climb on roofs or open equipment. When something needs hands-on diagnosis, our report lists what to ask a qualified technician or electrician to check, and what not to pay for.

Procurement consulting

We write requests for proposals, level bids so they can be compared line by line, and track supplier documentation such as domestic content and sourcing paperwork. We organize that file. Whether a project meets a tax-credit requirement is a determination for your tax adviser and attorney.

Permitting administrative support

Our work here is administrative and clerical: collecting information, assembling application packets, tracking status, following up, and coordinating communications among you, your installer, the utility, and local offices. Technical drawings, electrical work, and certifications are prepared by appropriately licensed parties that you or your installer retain.

Sustainability consulting

We prepare Scope 2 emissions estimates and help answer supplier questionnaires, showing every factor and source we rely on. The section on emissions below explains what those figures are, and what they are not.

How we work with licensed professionals

Many of our engagements end with a short document titled “Questions for your licensed professional.” We prepare it so the hour you pay an engineer, electrician, attorney, or CPA is spent on judgment, not on sorting paper.

In practice that means we:

• organize your documents into a clean, labeled file;
• summarize the facts and numbers that bear on the question;
• list the specific questions only that professional can answer; and
• join a call with them at your request to explain our analysis.

Here is what a handoff looks like. Say a farm family brings us two land lease offers. We put the rent schedules, escalators, and option payments side by side and show that the offer with the lower starting rent pays more over the full term. We also note that one offer mentions decommissioning but names no bond or other security. We don’t tell the family what that clause means legally. We write the question for their attorney: “What security, if any, does this lease require for removal and restoration, who holds it, and when must it be posted?”

They make the technical, legal, and tax determinations. If their advice differs from an assumption in our report, their advice wins and we’ll update the analysis within the engagement’s follow-up round.

Estimates and methodology

Every number we produce is an estimate built on stated assumptions. Production estimates rely on modeled weather and equipment data. Savings estimates rely on the current tariff, the rate path we assume, and how you use energy. Financial results depend on discount rates, financing terms, degradation, and replacement costs. Any of these can turn out differently, and the difference can be large.

To make that visible, each report opens with an assumptions page and includes sensitivity tables showing which inputs move the answer most. We use published sources and standard financial measures such as net present value, internal rate of return, and simple payback. When an input is uncertain, we show a range instead of a single confident number.

Nothing we publish or deliver promises that a system will produce, save, or earn a particular amount.

Emissions figures are non-certified estimates

Our emissions figures are non-certified estimates based on published methodologies, such as the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance and emission factors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s eGRID database. We don’t perform third-party verification or assurance. If a customer, lender, or regulator requires verified figures, our work can serve as organized input for a qualified verification body.

Our independence

Center For Solar is fee-only. We take no commissions, referral fees, equipment margins, or payments of any kind from installers, manufacturers, lenders, or developers. We don’t keep a list of preferred vendors that pay to be on it. The fixed fee in your engagement letter is the only money we receive for your work. Read our independence pledge for the full commitment, and our fees page for how pricing works.

Not sure where your question fits?

Ask us. On a free fit call, we’ll tell you whether your question is one we can answer, one for a licensed professional, or both. If it isn’t ours, you’ll leave the call knowing who to contact and what to ask.