We're Solaria Solar. We'll be the team installing your solar system once your home qualifies for the program. Here's what comes next.
Your home is in the qualification phase. Before scheduling the install, we need to inspect the roof, verify the electrical panel, and confirm the system design fits your home. The site assessment is the first approval step.
Vanessa will call you the day before to confirm. If the crew runs late, we'll call you.
About Solaria
Solaria Solar & Roofing began in Orlando more than ten years ago, building one of the highest-rated residential solar operations in Central Florida.
For Apopka and the surrounding Orange County corridor, this is home ground — Solaria crews have been climbing roofs in your neighborhood for over a decade. Clean installs, plain communication, hurricane-rated mounting, and a local team that knows Duke Energy, your county permitting office, and the storms that define the Central Florida electrical reality.
Where we work
Solaria's headquarters sits on N John Young Parkway in Orlando — about twenty minutes from your driveway. Every install we do is run by a crew that lives and works in Central Florida. No subcontracted travel teams flown in for the job, no out-of-state coordinators routing your permit through a different time zone. Your installation, your inspection, your service calls — all handled by people who know Duke Energy's interconnection process and Orange County's permit office by name.
Sources: Florida DBPR contractor verification (myfloridalicense.com) · Solaria Solar & Roofing Google Business listing · Better Business Bureau profile, Solaria Solar & Roofing LLC
Why this
You already made this call. Here is the shape of what is coming — Duke's rate against your locked one, side by side, year one and across the next twenty-five.
Method: Duke Energy Florida charges $0.18/kWh all-in for your service tier. Your system produces 14,903 kWh in year one. At Duke's current rate, that is the $2,683 you would otherwise pay them. Your locked LightReach lease is $1,937. The difference stays.
Across twenty-five years, the locked path runs roughly $75,000 in your favor compared to staying on Duke's variable rate — and that's before counting the panels, the warranty, and the monitoring already on the locked side of the ledger.
You are not choosing between $161 and $224. You are choosing between $161 with everything in it — panels, warranty, monitoring — and $224 plus everything Duke decides to charge later.
Your Project
By day, your panels run the home directly. With 112% annual offset, most days produce more than the home uses — and every surplus kilowatt-hour exports to the Duke grid. Your meter literally spins backward.
By night — when production stops and the home keeps drawing — you draw that banked credit back from Duke. 1:1 net metering means a kilowatt-hour you sent at noon offsets a kilowatt-hour you pull at midnight, at the full retail rate. No battery required.
What's next
Our process has six steps. The first one is already done.
You completed this with Vanessa. Energy needs, goals, budget, system fit — all reviewed and signed. Your project then moved over to Solaria.
A surveyor will visit your home, measure the roof, photograph the electrical panel, verify orientation and shading, and confirm the system design fits the geometry. You don't need to do anything beforehand — just be home during the arrival window. This is the stage your project is in right now.
Our engineering team produces the final drawings. We submit permits to Orange County and the interconnection paperwork to Duke Energy Florida on your behalf. You don't need to do anything during this stage — we handle the entire packet.
Our crew installs the racking, the 19 panels, the Enphase IQ8 HC microinverters, and the wiring into your existing electrical panel. Most installations are completed in a single day. Larger jobs spill into a second.
An Orange County inspector verifies the work. Once they sign off, Duke Energy sends their inspector to verify the interconnection. We schedule both appointments and meet the inspectors on your behalf — you don't need to take time off work.
Duke Energy issues Permission to Operate. The system flips on. Your meter starts running backward whenever you produce more than you consume, and the surplus banks as Duke net-metering credit. You'll get an email from us — and your first day of solar production lands on the Enphase Enlighten app, with production visible by hour, within 24 hours.
Your first year
One app on your phone — Enphase Enlighten. It shows how much energy your panels produce hour by hour, day by day, month by month, and how much you have exported to Duke versus drawn back. We monitor the system from our side too, and reach out if anything looks off before you notice.
Your lease is your warranty. For 25 years, LightReach owns the system and we monitor, maintain, and repair it. If a panel fails, we replace it. If a microinverter fails, we replace it. If wiring needs service, we handle it. You don't pay for repairs, equipment, or labor — for the full 25-year term.
If something doesn't look right in the app — low production, an inverter showing offline, a microinverter throwing an error — call Vanessa or the Solaria team. We send a technician to the site. Most issues resolve in a single visit.
Your first payment lands after the system is on — not before. Until LightReach receives Permission to Operate (PTO) from Duke, you owe nothing. The monthly auto-pay you authorized at signing starts only after activation, always on the same day each month.
Voices from homeowners
From Solaria's Central Florida customers — homeowners across Orange, Seminole, Lake, Volusia, and Brevard counties
"My sales rep, Jeff, was amazing and made the whole transition very easy. I recommend them wholeheartedly."
Monica Vega Stiskin · 11 days ago · 5★
"Crew 2: very good and fast."
"They did a great job! I recommend them."
"Crew 2 — very good."
"Solaria is an excellent company that helped me throughout the entire solar process — and with the paperwork and bureaucracy with Duke. We got it done and I'm ready to start seeing my savings."
"The guys did an excellent job! They're very professional and fast. We're impressed!"
"Marko's team did an excellent job."
Your installation hasn't happened yet, but your consultation has. If Vanessa helped you understand the system, the Duke math, or the lease structure — your review helps other Central Florida families decide. Three minutes.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Over the next few weeks — now that you've signed — other people are going to reach out to you. Calls, texts, sometimes even door-knocks. Some are competitors telling you they have a "better offer" or that "your contract isn't as good as you think it is." Others are scammers pretending to be Solaria, Duke Energy, or LightReach, fishing for personal info or money. It happens to every Florida household that signs solar — it's not personal, it's the industry. Here's how to tell them apart.
WHAT THEY'LL SAY
WHAT TO DO WHEN IT HAPPENS
THE ONLY LEGITIMATE SOLARIA CHANNELS
Save these contacts to your phone now — please. When Vanessa or the Solaria team calls, your phone will show their name instead of an unknown number you might ignore. That way you know it's actually us.
If you have any doubt about who is contacting you — even if the person claims to be from Solaria — call the team directly at (321) 234-9000 to verify. It takes a minute. We confirm immediately whether the person works with us.
Solaria will never ask you for money outside your lease, never ask for personal information by phone or text, and never ask you to sign anything new at the door. Your current lease is your lease — you do not need to "update," "consolidate," or "upgrade" it with anyone else. If something feels off, it's off. Call us.
A QUESTION?
This goes straight to the Solaria team — the people who design and install the system, not your sales rep. For when you want a second opinion, a different perspective, or just to ask someone new. We reply personally, usually within 24 business hours.
Received — thank you.
The Solaria team has your question and will reply soon, typically within 24 business hours. If it's urgent, you can call us directly at (321) 234-9000.
Referral bonus · May
If you have a family member, neighbor, or coworker fighting their Duke Energy bill every month — let us know. Vanessa calls them, runs an honest consult (no pressure, no tricks), and if the system works for them, we connect them.
For every referral who signs with Solaria, we send you a $1,000 Visa card. This month — normally $500. It's our way of saying thank you for trusting us before your neighbors knew we existed.
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