01 / Rooftop supply / sized to the household
Generation
The roof becomes the supply side of the house. Output is sized against twelve months of real usage — the kitchen, the climate system, the pool pump, the car — never against a brochure figure.
A Direct Home Company
Direct Solar
The house that powers itself. Energy generated on the roof, banked in the wall, and spent in every room — the one utility your home can produce.
The Energy Division
The fourth utility is the one your home makes.
Water, gas, and data arrive at the property line by pipe and wire. Electricity is different — it is the one utility a house can produce for itself. Direct Solar exists to make that production a working part of the building: generated overhead, held in reserve on the wall, and metered out to every circuit the household actually runs.
Because we share a roof with four other trades, the energy plan is never drawn in isolation. A new roof and its array are specified on the same sheet. Pool circulation is scheduled to the hours the sun is working. Glazing trims the load before a single module is ordered. The result is not equipment on a house — it is a house with its own supply.
The Household Utility
Generate. Store. Spend.
02 / Wall-mounted reserve / hours of autonomy
Storage
Midday surplus is banked instead of exported. When the grid drops or evening rates climb, the house keeps drawing from its own reserve — lights, refrigeration, and connectivity without interruption.
03 / Telemetry / every circuit accounted for
Distribution
A monitored panel decides where each kilowatt-hour goes: the vehicle overnight, the pool at noon, the reserve before a storm. You see production and consumption on one screen, in plain numbers.
The System, Measured
4th
Utility, Reimagined On Site
Water, gas, and data arrive. We help you explore on-site generation.
Free
No-Obligation Solar Quote
A vetted, licensed local installer prices the system, at no cost to you.
5
Trades Under One Point of Contact
Roof, glazing, grounds, and pool — one team helps you plan it all.
1
Point of Contact for Everything
We connect you with the right vetted pro across every trade you need.
How a House Becomes a Utility
Measured first. Built once.
01
Audit
The household is metered before anything is promised: twelve months of usage, every major load named — climate, kitchen, pool equipment, the vehicle — and the sun tracked across each roof plane through the seasons. The number the design works to is yours, not an average.
02
Engineer
Generation and reserve are sized against the audited load, then coordinated with the rest of the house. If the roof is due, the re-roof and the array go on one schedule. If new glazing is planned, the system shrinks to match the tighter envelope. Everything lands on a single drawing set.
03
Commission
A vetted, licensed installer builds to the drawings, the inspector signs, and your system is energized with you present — with your Direct Home contact coordinating throughout. Measured production is checked against the engineered model in writing, the monitoring is handed to your phone, and one Direct Home contact stays on your account through the installer's warranty.
After Sunset / The House on Reserve
The Evening Test
A system is judged at nine in the evening, not at noon.
Any array performs in full sun. The measure of a whole-home system is the dark hours — dinner cooking, the pool cycling, the car taking its charge — while the meter at the curb stands still.
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Sized from the panel out
The design starts at the breaker panel and works outward — every circuit weighed, every future load given headroom — so the system fits the life inside the house, not a sales quota.
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Transfer you never feel
When the grid drops, the house switches to its own reserve in a fraction of a second. The clocks keep time, the network stays up, and the household carries on unaware.
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Coordinated with the building
Array, reserve, and wiring are planned with the roof, the envelope, and the grounds — one set of drawings, one schedule, and a structure that is opened once instead of three times.
Direct Solar / A Direct Home Company
One home. Its own grid.
Request a free consultation and your Direct Home team will connect you with a vetted, licensed local installer who models what your roof can produce, what your household consumes, and the system that closes the gap — no cost, no obligation.