SolarFY Editorial Team · Standards & Process · Updated July 2026
The people and the process behind the SolarFY Editor byline. This page explains who we are, how we research and fact-check every solar guide, and the standards that keep our advice honest and independent.
“SolarFY Editor” is the editorial team behind MySolarFY’s solar guides, not a single writer. It is a working name for the group and the process that researches, drafts, fact-checks, and reviews everything we publish.
Our mission is simple: help homeowners make an informed, unbiased decision about solar with honest, data-backed guidance. Solar is a real financial decision, so we treat every page like one. We show where each number comes from, we date it, and we say plainly when something has changed or no longer applies, even when the honest answer is not the one a reader hoped for.
To see the company behind the guides and how the matching service works, read how MySolarFY works and how we choose installers.
Every SolarFY guide moves through the same four steps before it goes live. This is the real work behind the byline.
We research every page independently across multiple current sources, rather than rewriting one article we found. We favor primary sources: government agencies, utility tariffs, and program administrators, not recycled blog claims.
Every material figure, cost, incentive, tax rule, and net-metering term, is verified against a primary source with an as-of date. If we cannot verify a number against a source we trust, we drop it rather than publish it.
No page publishes until it passes a compliance and quality review. That review checks the tax-credit posture, the lease and PPA disclosure, installer neutrality, and that every figure is dated and sourced. A page that fails is fixed, not published.
When we publish a payback or savings estimate, we compute it ourselves from the local rate, the modeled production, a typical system cost, and the incentives that apply, and we show the inputs. We label estimates as estimates, never guarantees, and you can follow the full worked method on our data and methodology page.
We favor named public sources: the U.S. Department of Energy and its EERE office, the EIA, NREL, DSIRE, the IRS, state energy offices, and state utility commissions (the PUCs that set net-metering tariffs). The figure-by-figure map is in the sourcing table further down and in our data and methodology.
Independence is the whole point of a trust page, so here is exactly what we do and what we refuse to do.
| What we do | What we refuse to do |
|---|---|
| Stay neutral on installers and screen them on objective criteria | Rank or score installers, or take pay-to-list fees to move a company up |
| State the tax-credit posture accurately and date it | Imply a tax break is still available after it has ended |
| Explain lease and PPA offers as financing, described as no up-front cost where eligible | Use bait language, because solar panels are not free |
| Date and source every figure so you can check our work | Publish an undated or unsourced number, or a fabricated savings claim |
The independence rules we hold to
We publish our sourcing in the open so you never have to take a number on faith. Each kind of figure ties to one authoritative source, dated, as the table below shows. The full map, including how we turn that data into a payback estimate and how often we refresh it, lives on its own page.
| Figure on our pages | Primary source | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity rate | U.S. EIA (as of 2026) | The rate your solar offsets, by state and utility |
| Solar production | NREL PVWatts (as of 2026) | A modeled estimate of what a system makes locally |
| Incentives and net metering | DSIRE, state energy offices, and state utility-commission (PUC) tariffs and orders (as of 2026) | What programs and credit rules apply where you live |
| Federal tax posture | IRS (as of 2026) | Stated plainly; the residential Section 25D credit ended for expenditures made after December 31, 2025 |
Read the complete method in our data and methodology, then see it applied across our state-by-state solar guides and the wider solar resource library.
We would rather fix a mistake than defend one. If you spot an error, an out-of-date figure, or a source that no longer says what we say it does, tell us and we will check it against the primary source and correct it, or explain why it stands.
Send corrections through our contact page. Point us to the page and the specific figure, and a member of the editorial team will review it.
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The SolarFY Editor is the editorial team behind our solar guides, not one named individual. It is the working byline for the group and the process, the researchers, fact-checkers, and reviewers, who produce and sign off on every page. This page describes that team and how it works.
Every material figure is verified against a primary source with an as-of date before it publishes. We use agencies and administrators such as the EIA for rates, NREL PVWatts for production, DSIRE and state energy offices for incentives, and the IRS for federal tax rules. If a number cannot be verified, we drop it.
No. We are neutral on installers. We do not rank or score installers and we take no pay-to-list fees, and there are no affiliate installer links in our guides. We screen companies on objective criteria such as licensing and a workmanship warranty, and paying us never buys a better position.
We state it plainly. The 30 percent federal residential solar credit (Section 25D) ended for expenditures made after December 31, 2025, so most homeowners installing in 2026 cannot claim it, and we never imply otherwise. We point readers to the state and local incentives that still apply.
Send it through our contact page with the page name and the specific figure. A member of the editorial team will check it against the primary source and correct it if it is wrong, or explain why it stands.
Last reviewed July 2026 by the SolarFY editorial team. MySolarFY is not an installer, a financing company, a tax advisor, or a government program. “No up-front cost” refers to qualifying lease or PPA financing where eligible, and solar panels are not free. A lease or PPA can run 20 to 25 years, may include an annual price escalator, may cost more over its term than paying cash, and a lease or PPA customer does not own the system and does not receive the federal tax credit. The federal residential solar credit (Section 25D) ended for expenditures made after December 31, 2025. Incentives, savings, rates, and net-metering terms vary by home and location and over time and are not guaranteed; confirm tax questions with a qualified tax professional and verify current figures with the cited sources before you decide.