IMHO Solrite very well represents all that is wrong with residential solar – meaning there are (2) major gotcha’s in the Solrite contract that the door-knocking salespeople clearly aren’t openly disclosing:

(1) the contract requires the customer to stay with a Solrite approved Retail Electric Provider otherwise the customer pays a $3,000/year penalty. Signing up with Solrite effectively ends a TX resident’s ability to choose a competitive electricity rate … for a 25-years (!) This penalty also applies to the new home owner should the original owner sell their house. There is no penalty or any gotcha’s should a customer self-finance and enroll the batteries into a Texas VPP with retailers like NRG, Gexa Energy, Octopus Energy, etc.

(2) if you choose to buy the system outright, Solrite retains ownership of the batteries (= you cannot buy the batteries) and the $3,000/year penalty applies to any owner of the property, even though someone “bought” the system

We need more distributed energy and more distributed power plants; however, limiting homeowner’s retail electricity choices and presumably devaluing their property through essentially a lien disguised as “free batteries” ultimately devalues residential solar and hurts our industry

There is a common thread in all of this, many relatively large solar PV entities have come and gone, IE) SolarCity gets bought out by TESLA and subsiquently is (reorganized) leaving some early adopters abandoned in markets that used to be served by SolarCity. Folks ‘renting’ their roofs for a system and their garage space for a Sonnen smart BESS unit leaves one “uncertain” if this company like SOLRITE goes bankrupt and is sold to another entity, what does this do to your previous contract with SOLRITE? I would submit, (never) fall into a no down, roof rental/solar PV system lease agreement. Buy the technology as a package. This very site has pointed out several viable (purchases) over the last several years. Schneider Home system, SolarEdge, Enphase, GENERAC PWRCell, Briggs & Stratton and others cropping up every year. I’d say most folks would NOT rent or lease a water heater, air conditioning system or built in appliances like a wall oven, range top, dishwasher even the more ‘portable’ washer and dryer are bought and paid for. I see no upside to contractually allowing a third party into your house and energy generation and use affairs. The solar PV + BESS is a generation “appliance”, buy it, have it installed without interloping third parties.