Make the next decision from what is already installed

Existing-System Upgrades & Retrofits

Existing solar and storage systems deserve a clear assessment before expansion, retrofit, troubleshooting, or replacement decisions are made.

Review My Existing System
Planning pathway
Who this is for

Property owners with existing solar, an older battery system, a changing load profile, or an unresolved system question.

The design question

New equipment must work with existing electrical, solar, monitoring, backup, and site conditions.

What AER evaluates

Questions that help shape the right next step.

Early planning does not replace final engineering, permitting, site evaluation, equipment selection, or contractual proposals. It gives those steps a more informed starting point.

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Existing equipment and configuration

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Current performance questions and use changes

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Compatibility, capacity, and electrical constraints

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Paths for expansion, storage retrofit, or correction

Avoid a false sense of readiness

Common ways a system plan gets simplified too soon.

These are not reasons to delay a project. They are reasons to ask more useful questions before the property is committed to an approach.

Assuming every system can be expanded the same way

Adding storage without understanding the existing architecture

Replacing equipment before diagnosing the constraint

Ignoring changes in electrical or usage conditions

Start the planning conversation

Organize the first inputs before a project review.

The separate Energy Planner considers usage, critical loads, storage, power, and runtime. Use it for a structured preliminary plan, then bring the results into a Project Review.

Use the Energy Planner
Ready to frame the project?

Bring the property question. We’ll help make the system conversation more useful.

Review My Existing System