Solar Installation in Lafayette, California
Lamorinda has the heaviest tree cover and the most active architectural review of anywhere we install, so design here is as much about shading and sightlines as it is about kilowatts.
Designed around your roof, not a template
Singh Solar Couple is a family-run solar company based in Concord, Contra Costa County. We design and project-manage residential and commercial solar, battery storage and EV charging for homeowners in Lafayette and neighbouring Orinda and Moraga. You deal directly with the owners from the first call to switch-on.
Wooded hillside lots with significant canopy shading. Panel placement and per-panel optimisers or micro-inverters matter far more here than on an unshaded flat roof.
What solar costs in Lafayette
Lafayette is served by PG&E for electricity delivery. That matters because PG&E residential rates are among the highest in the United States, and because it puts Lafayette under the California Public Utilities Commission's Net Billing Tariff — the rules commonly called NEM 3.0.
We won't quote you a price on a web page. System cost depends on your actual usage, your roof and whether you add storage, and any installer who gives you a figure before seeing your bill is guessing. What we will do is model your real numbers against current rates and show you the working.
Why Lafayette homeowners are adding batteries
Under the Net Billing Tariff, the credit you earn for exporting surplus solar to the grid is far lower than the retail rate you pay to import it. The practical consequence is that a system designed to export as much as possible no longer pays the way it did — the value now comes from using your own power, especially during expensive evening peak hours.
That is why most of the systems we design in Lafayette now include storage, and why we size the battery to your evening load rather than selling you the largest one available. A battery also keeps your power on during an outage, which a grid-tied system without one cannot do.
HOA and architectural review in Lafayette
California's Solar Rights Act (Civil Code §714) limits how far a homeowners association can restrict a solar installation. An association can impose reasonable conditions on placement and appearance, but it cannot apply restrictions that significantly increase cost or reduce performance beyond the statutory limits.
We handle architectural review submissions as part of the job, and we design around the association's aesthetic rules where we reasonably can rather than picking a fight you'd have to live with afterwards.
What Lafayette customers say
“Navjot from Singh Solar Couple is a thorough professional person, this is the 2nd time we got the system from them- 1st at our Brentwood house and now at our Orinda house. We highly recommend Singh Solar Couple”
Bindra Sandhu · Orinda/ Brentwood, CA
Permits and inspection in Lafayette
Solar permits for Lafayette go through the City of Lafayette Planning & Building. Under California Senate Bill 379, jurisdictions of this size have been required since 2024 to offer online permitting that issues a residential solar and storage permit — up to 38.4 kW AC — in real time rather than over weeks.
We manage the permit application, the utility interconnection paperwork and the inspection scheduling, and the installation is carried out by our licensed contractor partners. You do not need to speak to the city or to PG&E; that is our job.
Solar for Lafayette, done honestly
Accurate design, real numbers and a team that is still here after switch-on.
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