Gain Energy Independence with Solar and Storage in Marin County, California
Sunrun Welcomes You to a Life with Less Worries about Outages and Rate Spikes
4,297
Power outages that hit California from 2008 to 2017.1
+31%
Marin County’s residential electricity rates vs. cities in other states.2
256
Average number of sunny days per year in Marin County, CA.3
The cost of rooftop solar panels in California has fallen 36% over the last five years,4 while battery storage prices have also plummeted in the state.5 If you team up with a Marin County solar company like Sunrun to create and store your own energy, it could be a cost-effective move to protect your home against blackouts. When you go solar, you can also boost your control over your electric bills and reduce your carbon footprint for decades.
How to Go Solar in Marin County
As the leading residential solar and energy storage company in the country,6 we work so you can get the peace of mind you deserve. Discover which Sunrun solar plan, with or without back-up power, is the ideal fit 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 create and send to the grid.7 Net metering in Marin County could help you save money on your future electricity bills.
Solar made better
- Learn about the federal tax credit
- Find your ideal system and battery
- Get your cost to go solar today
How Would You Like to Start Your Solar Journey?
How Would You Like to Start Your Solar Journey?
Each Sunrun solar plan has unique advantages. Whether you choose a solar lease or a purchase plan, with or without a home battery, you could benefit from your Marin County solar panel installation for decades to come. We’re one of the best solar installers in California that you can team up with. When possible, we’ll even take care of the paperwork for you.
Monthly Plan
Monthly Plan
Lease new Sunrun solar panels in Marin County 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 power in Marin County for home use at the best price. Our Sunrun Guarantee also backs it.
System Purchase
System Purchase
Own a Marin County 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 Marin County. 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 year after year.
To protect communities and the grid, electric companies are rolling out Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), which leave millions of homes without electricity for hours or days at a time.
With Brightbox, you can 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 Marin County 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 back-up energy solution compared to loud and dirty generators.
You can monitor your Marin County solar energy production and storage daily with the online dashboard and mobile app.
Our monthly lease and prepaid 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 Marin County.
California’s Clean Energy Future Is Already Here
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 Marin County, you can also reduce your dependence on toxic, dangerous fossil fuels. This will help build a more modern and resilient energy system that runs on local, renewable electricity. Ready to bring home the benefits of solar? 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 Marin County?
Why Choose Sunrun in Marin County?
Since 2007, hundreds of thousands of people have chosen Sunrun to join the clean energy revolution. To date, our customers’ solar panel arrays 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
Don’t just take our word for it. See what people say about their Sunrun solar panels and home batteries.
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SOURCES:
1. Eaton Blackout Tracker Annual Report
2. Marin County electricity prices
3. Marin County annual sunny days
4. California 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.