Publish Date: April 13th, 2026
Across the country, rising energy costs are becoming the new normal, and at the same time, climate change is at our doorstep with impacts that are impossible to ignore. We are feeling the stress in our wallet, the urgency in our smoke-filled skies, and the foreboding of grid blackouts.
What if one decision could help you address all these challenges at once?
Solar energy is not just an environmental statement on your roof. Solar plus home battery backup is a way to take control of your energy costs while also being part of something bigger (and better). Save money and make a difference with home solar.
Key Takeaways for Saving Money and Making a Difference with Solar + Home Battery Backup
- When you go solar, you own your power production, and solar provides a cheaper cost per kilowatt hour price that electricity from the utility. This is how you are able to save money each month with solar and how solar pays for itself over time.
- Solar gives you relief from rising electricity rates and stability from month to month when it comes to your energy costs.
- When you add battery backup to the mix, you can use stored solar energy at night, and you can use your battery to offset high time-of-use rates. Plus, it’s a dependable way to power your home during a grid outage.
- In Colorado, we’re seeing record-breaking drought conditions and more intense high wind events. Every person who goes solar gains personal independence from fossil fuels and contributes to the clean energy transition and its growing momentum.
- The Namaste Solar difference is cited again and again as to why thousands of customers have chosen us over the competition and why folks love their experience working with us. Our no-pressure sales experience, quality installations, and unique business model stand out in the industry.
When You Get Solar, You Start Saving Money on Day One
In the traditional model, you use electricity provided by the grid that’s supplied by a utility company, like Xcel Energy or United Power. At the end of your billing cycle, you pay for the electricity you used at the rate that the utility company sells it for. You have no control over the rate you pay, and utility companies continually raise rates over time. Xcel proposed a 10% increase for Colorado customers beginning in August. While Fort Collins Utilities and CORE have both raised rates 6% this year. You can compare this to renting your home; you pay your rent to your landlord month over month without building any equity, and your landlord can raise your rent whenever they want.
For Cynthia, a two-time Namaste Solar customer, the idea of rising electric rates drove her decision to go solar the first time in 2013 and again when she installed solar on her second home. “In light of the rising electricity costs we’re facing right now, I do feel that having a solar panel system from Namaste Solar provides me with the consistency and stability from month to month when it comes to my energy bills,” she shared.
When you go solar, you own your power production, and when we compare the cost of electricity from a utility company compared to the cost of electricity from home solar panels, solar provides a cheaper cost per kilowatt hour price. This is how you are able to save money each month with solar and how solar pays for itself over time.
Namaste Solar customers Stefanie and Aziz saw this difference clearly and it was a driving force for their decision to go solar. “It’s like buying a home and having a steady mortgage. You’re no longer a renter at the whim of the market,” commented Stefanie. “Energy costs are going up, up, up, but our costs are taken care of.”
When You Add Home Battery Backup, You Increase Your Savings and Protect Your Home from Grid Outages
When you add battery backup to the mix, you gain even more predictability along with energy savings. Since you can use your battery to power your home with stored solar energy each night and to offset high time-of-use rates, home battery backup is a tool you can use daily to optimize your savings.
Plus, it’s a dependable way to power your home during a grid outage. For Aziz and Stefanie, local outages have affected their home and business, a local veterinarian hospital in Arvada. High winds in the winter of 2024 made their main hospital go without power for multiple days. But at home, where they have home battery backup, they were able to stay up and running.
“The fact that here, at my house, I was able to have battery backup and feel that there was a reliable source of power so that I could continue to work during those times was pretty important,” shared Aziz.
Going Solar Makes a Difference for Our Environment
Climate change is a reality that is being felt everywhere. In Colorado, we’re seeing record-breaking drought conditions and more intense high wind events. Every person who goes solar gains personal independence from fossil fuels and contributes to the clean energy transition and its growing momentum.
And for some Colorado residents, the environmental benefits outweigh anything else.
Take Alan and Cindy, grandparents living on the Front Range who feel that making a difference by going solar is reason enough. “I think we both feel that the environmental benefits outweigh probably almost everything else,” shared Alan. “The cost benefits, the savings are certainly there. But overall, the environmental impact was what we were aiming for.”
For them, it’s about, “the things we can do in our lifetimes that help for the common good, especially with grandkids.”
Solar protects our environment for future generations and contributes to a cleaner, greener future. There’s a whole movement of people who see this impact clearly and have decided to take the action that’s accessible to them by getting solar + home battery backup. And when you join them, you make a difference, too.
Going Solar with Namaste Solar
Not all solar companies are made equal, and Namaste Solar has been built different from day one. The Namaste Solar difference is cited again and again as to why thousands of customers have chosen us over the competition and why folks love their experience working with us.
For Dave, a Namaste Solar customer who owns a landscaping company in Longmont, the non-commissioned sales experience was a relief. “When I first approached Namaste Solar, the salesperson I reached out to didn’t pressure me at all,” shared Dave. “I’m in sales myself and I can feel it when there’s that used car salesman approach. And I certainly didn’t get that feeling. The important thing for me when I’m selling is to listen, and I felt like Namaste Solar was listening to me when I was presenting what I needed.”
And the installation process was seamless. “The best thing that I found about working with Namaste Solar on the installation side was that when they said they were going to do something, they were there,” explained Dave. As a contractor himself, he knows the power of a company who has the technical expertise and integrity to get a job done right.
For Cynthia, our two-time customer, the values-forward model at Namaste Solar had a major influence on her choice to work with us. “Another reason why we chose Namaste Solar, [was to support] a local Colorado business that really was in line with some of my values and was the type of company I would be proud to do business with,” she shared. “So looking at, how employees are treated, how quality comes across, how customers that have previously worked with Namaste Solar felt. That meant a lot to me in partnering with Namaste Solar.”
Namaste Solar’s values of transparency and long-term thinking shone through in Cynthia’s experience with our non-commissioned advisors as well. “Being a customer of Namaste Solar is a great experience from the sense that I never felt any high-pressure sales. And I felt because there isn’t a huge sales incentive to build the biggest solar array possible, that I was actually getting great advice. The team really sat down with me, and I felt their advice was appropriate,” she shared.
She continued, sharing about the installation itself, “Both times that I’ve worked with Namaste Solar, I’ve had a great install experience. The installation teams were always so professional, really respectful of the environments they were working in.”
And these great experiences translate to a higher quality of work, one that Cynthia has come to rely on. “When I purchased this house and knew I wanted to invest in solar, there was no question. There was no investigation. There were no other offers. I knew that was the quality of work I wanted. That was the team I wanted to work with. And I knew they would have the most thoughtful design for us.”
Going Solar with Battery Backup Is a Smart Move
It’s impossible to predict the future, but what we know now is that electricity rates are rising, outages are more frequent and longer lasting, and solar and battery backup can solve these problems for you at this moment.
As we enter what’s likely to be a hot summer and intense fire season, solar can allow you to run your AC guilt free and battery storage can protect you from grid outages, whether they’re caused by high winds or utility interruptions.
Come save money and make a difference with Namaste Solar.
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