[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":231},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Fcorrections":3,"author-mike":173},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"bare":7,"body":8,"dateModified":159,"datePublished":159,"description":160,"extension":161,"howToSteps":162,"kits":162,"layout":163,"meta":164,"navigation":165,"path":166,"schemaType":167,"seo":168,"sources":162,"stem":169,"targetKeywords":170,"titleTag":5,"translationOf":162,"__hash__":172},"content\u002Fcorrections.md","Corrections","mike",false,{"type":9,"value":10},"minimark",[11,18,23,26,29,33,40,52,60,64,67,70,145,149,156],[12,13,14],"answer-box",{},[15,16,17],"p",{},"When a figure on this site turns out to be wrong, we change it, date the change, and say here what it was before. We don't quietly edit a number and move on. This page is the record.",[19,20,22],"h2",{"id":21},"why-this-page-exists","Why this page exists",[15,24,25],{},"This site asks you to believe numbers about your electricity bill, and the only reason to believe them is that the working is public and checkable. A site that shows its arithmetic but silently rewrites it when it's wrong has given you nothing.",[15,27,28],{},"So corrections are published rather than absorbed. If a change makes an earlier version of a page look bad, that is the correction working.",[19,30,32],{"id":31},"what-counts-as-one","What counts as one",[15,34,35,39],{},[36,37,38],"strong",{},"A correction"," is a change to a fact: a price, a rate, a production figure, a legal status, a certification claim, a date. These get logged below with the old value and the new one.",[15,41,42,45,46,51],{},[36,43,44],{},"Not a correction:"," rewriting a sentence, adding a section, updating a page because the world changed rather than because we were wrong. A rate that goes up is news, not an error. The ",[47,48,50],"a",{"href":49},"\u002Fis-it-legal","SB 868 status"," changes on its own schedule and is dated wherever it appears.",[15,53,54,55,59],{},"If a correction changes a savings figure, the ",[47,56,58],{"href":57},"\u002Fmethodology","methodology"," and the calculator change with it in the same commit. An article stating arithmetic the calculator can't reproduce is precisely what this site tells you to watch out for, so the tests fail until both agree.",[19,61,63],{"id":62},"the-log","The log",[15,65,66],{},"Nothing has been corrected since publication.",[15,68,69],{},"That is not a boast — the site is new, and the honest reading is that not enough people have checked it yet. The items below were caught before launch and are recorded here because they are the kind of thing this page is for.",[71,72,73,89],"table",{},[74,75,76],"thead",{},[77,78,79,83,86],"tr",{},[80,81,82],"th",{},"Date",[80,84,85],{},"Page",[80,87,88],{},"What changed",[90,91,92,107,120,133],"tbody",{},[77,93,94,98,104],{},[95,96,97],"td",{},"1 Sep 2026",[95,99,100],{},[47,101,103],{"href":102},"\u002Fkits\u002Fcraftstrom","CraftStrom",[95,105,106],{},"Price per watt was given as \"roughly $1.60 a watt\" for a $2,031 800-watt kit. That arithmetic is wrong: it is $2.54 a watt. Corrected before publication",[77,108,109,111,117],{},[95,110,97],{},[95,112,113],{},[47,114,116],{"href":115},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-much-does-it-save","How much does it save",[95,118,119],{},"Worked example 6 read $356. The model produces $355 — the $356 came from multiplying an already-rounded figure. Corrected, and there is now a test asserting all nine worked examples against the model so the two can't drift again",[77,121,122,124,130],{},[95,123,97],{},[95,125,126],{},[47,127,129],{"href":128},"\u002Ffaq","FAQ",[95,131,132],{},"Said \"thirty answers\" and had thirty-five",[77,134,135,137,142],{},[95,136,97],{},[95,138,139],{},[47,140,141],{"href":49},"Is it legal?",[95,143,144],{},"The answer box restated the SB 868 status word for word, which would have gone stale the moment the Governor decided. Rewritten to state only what stays true, with the changing part left to the status strip",[19,146,148],{"id":147},"found-something-wrong","Found something wrong?",[15,150,151,155],{},[47,152,154],{"href":153},"\u002Fcontact","Email us",". A correction is the most useful thing you can send, and you don't need to be sure — \"this doesn't look right\" is enough to make us check.",[15,157,158],{},"If you're right, it goes in the table above with your correction noted. If you'd rather not be credited, say so and we'll leave your name out.","2026-09-07","What we've got wrong and what we changed. Every correction is dated and says what the figure was before.","md",null,"article",{},true,"\u002Fcorrections","WebPage",{"title":5,"description":160},"corrections",[171],"SmallSolarCo corrections","gSMDqA_GF23sf6K25fWMz45nKl-Vn3-BCjGlflsQXAY",{"id":174,"title":175,"body":176,"description":222,"email":220,"extension":161,"location":223,"meta":224,"name":182,"navigation":165,"path":225,"photo":226,"role":227,"sameAs":162,"seo":228,"stem":229,"__hash__":230},"authors\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.md","Mike",{"type":9,"value":177},[178,184,190,197,201,204,207,211,214],[15,179,180,183],{},[36,181,182],{},"Mike Yu"," is the editor of SmallSolarCo. He started it after working out that a plug-in panel was the only kind of solar available to him — he rents in Irvine with a west-facing balcony and no roof of his own — and found that nothing written about it in California was both plain and sourced.",[15,185,186,189],{},[36,187,188],{},"He is not an electrician, a solar installer, or a lawyer",", and the site says so wherever it matters. What he does is read the primary sources — bill text, CPUC filings, utility tariff sheets, UL standards, manufacturer specification sheets — and put them in one place with the arithmetic attached and a date on every claim.",[15,191,192,193,196],{},"He has a background building web products, and built the savings model here himself, using NREL irradiance data and Southern California Edison's published rates. It's published in full on ",[47,194,195],{"href":57},"the methodology page",", and the site's tests fail if an article and the calculator ever disagree.",[19,198,200],{"id":199},"what-this-site-does-and-doesnt-do","What this site does and doesn't do",[15,202,203],{},"It explains, catalogs, and calculates. It does not test hardware. Kit pages are built from published specifications with the date they were checked, not from a test bench, and the site says so rather than implying otherwise.",[15,205,206],{},"There is a plug-in kit on the Irvine balcony logging output, which is used to check whether the model is roughly calibrated. Figures from it are labelled measured and carry their conditions. Everything else on the site is labelled as an estimate, and there are far more estimates than measurements.",[19,208,210],{"id":209},"editorial-independence","Editorial independence",[15,212,213],{},"Affiliate commissions don't reach the savings model — it's the same arithmetic for every kit, and the current recommendation for anyone spending under $400 is a nonprofit that pays nothing. We don't accept hardware on terms that involve anyone approving coverage first. If a manufacturer sends something, the page says so.",[15,215,216,217,221],{},"Reach him at ",[47,218,220],{"href":219},"mailto:hello@smallsolarco.com","hello@smallsolarco.com",".","Mike Yu is the editor of SmallSolarCo. He started it after working out that a plug-in panel was the only kind of solar available to him — he rents in Irvine with a west-facing balcony and no roof of his own — and found that nothing written about it in California was both plain and sourced.","Irvine, California",{},"\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike","\u002Fimages\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.jpg","Founder and editor",{"description":222},"authors\u002Fmike","2UYfVkomBje4XbTXMc-HWSa7jliDKILElV8MEZxfPVw",1788880325512]