About Memphis Elite Solar

Why a site like this exists here

Almost everything written about home solar was written for somewhere with net metering, where a utility buys back what a roof exports and the sums work out on that. Memphis does not have one. MLGW states that power generated beyond what a property is using at that moment flows to the MLGW grid without financial benefit, and that the availability charge for a residential customer who self-generates is currently $14.40 a month and subject to change (MLGW, checked 2026-08-17).

The other half of the picture changed more recently. The federal residential credit is finished: the IRS states that the credit is not available for any property placed in service after December 31, 2025 (IRS, checked 2026-08-17). A large share of the pages ranking for Memphis solar, including pages carrying this year's date, still describe the price of a system as offset by it.

So a homeowner here searches, reads five articles written about a different market under a rule that has expired, and comes away with a number that was never theirs. There is room for a site that does the local arithmetic in public and prints where each figure came from. That is what this one is.

What gets published, and what has to be true first

A figure goes on a page here when somebody has read it on the publisher's own page, and it ships with that publisher named and the date it was read, in the same sentence. The date is not decoration. One link on this site returned a healthy page in early August and was serving the utility's error page thirteen days later, which is exactly how a stale number survives on a website for a year.

Where a figure could not be read at its source, the page says so and leaves the space empty. The clearest example is on the incentives page: the rate paid for exported power on the Mississippi side of this metro is set by the state commission, the utility's own page states no figure, and nobody here has read the order. So no number is printed. On a site whose entire argument is that it tells the truth about the numbers, the gap is the content.

The one number anywhere on this site that is ours rather than a publisher's is a subtraction, on the guide about whether panels are worth it here, and both figures going into it are published and named.

The things this site will not print

It is worth being specific, because every one of these is normal on a contractor's website and their absence here is deliberate rather than an unfinished page.

• No reviews, ratings or testimonials. None exist, and inventing them is where sites like this usually go wrong first.
• No named owner and no team photographs. The brand is neutral on purpose.
• No credential checked on anybody's behalf. Nobody's licence, insurance or certification has been verified by us, so a badge on this site would have nothing behind it. MLGW itself points homeowners at NABCEP certification as the standard to look for. Get the licence number and the insurance details in writing before any work starts, and verify them at the source.
• No installed price of our own. Every price on this site is somebody else's published figure with their name on it. The middle of a national range says nothing useful about one roof in Shelby County.
• No promise about lowering an MLGW bill. That is the headline nearly every solar company in this city runs, and the utility's own published expectation for this county is that payback likely will take 25 years or longer, even with federal tax incentives, on the twin grounds of low electric rates and this area's below average annual solar irradiance (MLGW, checked 2026-08-17). A page that skips past that sentence is selling rather than explaining.

None of that means solar cannot work on a building in Memphis. It means the case for it here rests on how much of the output a property uses itself rather than on a credit or an export payment, which is a narrower argument and a more honest one.

What happens to a request

This site is built to hand a request to one local solar contractor rather than to a list of them, and no contractor is attached to it yet. That is the honest state today and it is written here rather than left for somebody to discover: a request sent now reaches us and goes no further. When an operator is attached, this paragraph and the matching lines on the contact page, the privacy policy and the terms all change together.

Either way, the work, the quote and the guarantee are between you and whoever turns up. We are not their employer and we do not supervise what they do.

How to check any of this

Every outbound link on this site goes to the organisation that published the figure beside it: the utility, the tax authority, the standards body. They are marked so search engines do not read them as endorsements, and they are there so you can read the original rather than take our word for the quote. If a source has changed since a page here was written, the source is right and the page is out of date.

Serving Memphis and the surrounding Shelby County area, and there is no counter to visit. What we collect and what happens to it is set out on the privacy policy; the terms this site is used under are on the terms page.