[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":49},["ShallowReactive",2],{"author-mike":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":37,"email":35,"extension":38,"location":39,"meta":40,"name":15,"navigation":41,"path":42,"photo":43,"role":44,"sameAs":45,"seo":46,"stem":47,"__hash__":48},"authors\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.md","Mike",{"type":7,"value":8},"minimark",[9,17,20,25,28],[10,11,12,16],"p",{},[13,14,15],"strong",{},"Mike Yu"," started SmallSolarCo 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. He is not an electrician, a solar installer, or a lawyer, and the site says so wherever it matters. 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.",[10,18,19],{},"Since September 2026 he has been running a plug-in kit on that balcony and logging what it actually produces. Every measured figure on this site comes from that kit. Everything else is labelled as an estimate.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"editorial-independence","Editorial independence",[10,26,27],{},"We don't accept review units on terms that involve anyone approving the review first. If a manufacturer sends us a kit, we say so on the review, and we keep the right to publish a bad one.",[10,29,30,31,36],{},"Reach him at ",[32,33,35],"a",{"href":34},"mailto:hello@smallsolarco.com","hello@smallsolarco.com",".","Mike Yu started SmallSolarCo 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. He is not an electrician, a solar installer, or a lawyer, and the site says so wherever it matters. 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.","md","Irvine, California",{},true,"\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike","\u002Fimages\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.jpg","Founder",null,{"description":37},"authors\u002Fmike","kb0uodhMlGk_YV3nMOIXdr6bpZgtB5zNoRxdGxsXMQ8",1788387858097]