Find More Peace of Mind with Solar and Battery Storage in Hayward, California
Now’s a Great Time to Take Control during Outages and Rate Spikes with Sunrun
4,297
Blackouts that hit California from 2008 to 2017.1
-43%
California's solar price drop over the last five years.2
257
Average number of sunny days per year in Hayward, CA.3
Great news: You live in the best state to go solar in the U.S.2 As the costs of rooftop solar panels and home batteries plummet in California,2,4 it could be incredibly cost-effective to team up with a Hayward solar company like Sunrun to gain energy independence. This move can give you protection during outages, boost your control over electricity bills, and reduce your home carbon emissions for decades.
How to Go Solar in Hayward
As the nation’s leading residential solar and energy storage company,5 we work so you can worry less during outages and rising energy costs. Find out which Sunrun solar plan, with or without a home battery in Hayward, 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 utility bill for the excess solar power you produce and send to the grid.6 Net metering in Hayward, 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 go solar today
Join the Solar Revolution for as Little as $0 Down
Join the Solar Revolution for as Little as $0 Down
Each Sunrun solar plan offers unique advantages. Whether you choose a solar lease or a purchase plan along with an energy storage system, we want you to be happy with your Hayward solar panel installation for decades. As one of the best solar installers in Hayward, we’ll even take care of the paperwork for you whenever possible.
Monthly Plan
Monthly Plan
Lease new Sunrun solar panels in Hayward 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 Hayward for home use at the best price. Our Sunrun Guarantee also backs it.
System Purchase
System Purchase
Own a Hayward 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.7
Solar + Brightbox™
Add Brightbox, Sunrun’s battery storage service, to your solar installation in Hayward. This can help keep you powered during outages, cloudy days, rainy afternoons, at night, or when Time-of-Use (TOU) rates spike.8
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 Hayward back-up 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 back-up energy solution compared to loud and dirty generators.
You can monitor your Hayward 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 benefit sets Brightbox apart from the average solar battery in Hayward.
The Golden State Is a Clean Energy Trailblazer
100%
State electricity generation that will come from clean and renewable energy sources by 2045.9
80%
California’s cut in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below 1990 levels by 2050.10
If you decide to create and store your own clean energy in Hayward today, you could reduce your dependence on toxic, dangerous fossil fuels. This will help build a modern and more resilient energy system that runs on solar power made in California. Ready to experience more energy freedom? Take our Product Selector for a spin 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 Hayward?
Why Choose Sunrun in Hayward?
Since 2007, hundreds of thousands of people have chosen Sunrun to create and store their own solar energy at home. 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.11
American families can help us create a more resilient 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. California solar state rank and solar price drop
3. Hayward, CA annual sunny days
4. California battery storage price drop
5. Sunrun ranked as leading residential solar-plus-storage vendor
6. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) net energy metering (NEM) program
7. California solar incentives
8. PG&E Time-of-Use (TOU) rate plan
9. California 100% Clean Energy Act (Senate Bill 100)
10. 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.