Aerial view of an Oʻahu hillside home with rooftop solar, overlooking Honolulu, Diamond Head, and the ocean.

Hawaiʻi Home Energy Resilience Review

A smarter energy plan before you sign.

Mainstay helps Hawaiʻi homeowners understand what the right solar, storage, and smart energy management system could really save — then stays involved through installation and beyond.

Guidance before the contract. Support through the install.

Hawaiʻi has the highest electricity rates in the country. That makes system design, storage strategy, and how much of your own solar you use especially important.

Based on your HECO bill and usage profile, we'll show you a personalized savings estimate after evaluating your roof and sun exposure — with the key assumptions clearly explained.

Start your savings estimate

The review

What we review for your home

Before any recommendation, we look at the whole picture — because one size does not fit all when it comes to your energy needs.

Your HECO bill

Review your historical daily consumption patterns and estimated future usage.

Roof & solar suitability

Orientation, shade, fit, and aesthetics.

Solar + battery fit

The right pairing for your home.

Backup & resilience

Which loads you want kept on during outages.

EV & smart loads

Charging and load-shifting opportunities to maximize savings.

Existing-system upgrades

Repowers and battery additions done right.

Tariff & incentives

Today's rules and how they apply to you.

Install & partner path

Coordination with qualified local partners.

The process

Guidance before the contract. Support through the install.

  1. 1

    Assess

    We review your bill, home, goals, and HECO's interconnection rules.

  2. 2

    Plan

    We design the right system and show you a personalized savings estimate with the assumptions explained — before you sign anything.

  3. 3

    Coordinate

    When you're ready, we bring in qualified and vetted local installation partners and manage the handoff.

  4. 4

    See it through

    We stay involved through installation and power-on, so the finished system matches the plan.

From plan to power-on, we're with you.

Self-consumption

Use more of your own power, import less from the grid

The biggest savings often come from using more of your own solar during the day instead of exporting to the grid and receiving a low bill credit from HECO, then importing power back from the grid later at much higher cost. Smart controls of your air conditioning, EV charging, and right-sized battery storage can significantly increase your savings.

We model the potential impact for your home, then explain the assumptions — and once your system is running, we can help you see the real results.

A day of energyMidday → evening
peak production from storage 6a noon 9p

Shifting evening use to stored daytime solar is where much of the value lives — we model it for your home.

A real Oʻahu system

What a thoughtfully built system looks like

This is founder Ryan Park's own Oʻahu home — an older full-NEM 4.5 kW rooftop array expanded with 10 kW of new panels, 20 kWh of battery storage, and a smart EV charger, brought together into one modern system with app-based monitoring.

Aerial view of solar panels on a standing-seam metal roof at an Oʻahu home, with tropical greenery and the ocean beyond.
Black solar panels on a standing-seam metal roof at an Oʻahu home, with Honolulu and Diamond Head in the distance.

One system, working together

An older array kept in service, new capacity and storage added, and the whole system tied together with modern monitoring — the kind of upgrade path we help homeowners plan without losing what already works.

Solar Battery storage EV charging App monitoring

A real Oʻahu installation. Every home's system is designed around its own roof, usage, and goals.

Aerial view of a rooftop solar array on an Oʻahu home above the coastline and ocean.

Already have solar, but no backup power? We have options to make it happen.

If your system is several years old, you may be able to add battery storage or capacity — but the details matter, especially if you're on an older net-metering agreement. We help you weigh upgrades without jeopardizing grandfathered tariff terms where they apply, so you keep what's working and improve what isn't.

Review my existing system
Ryan Park, founder of Mainstay Energy Advisors.

Ryan Park

Founder, Mainstay Energy Advisors

Who shapes your plan

Led by an Oʻahu energy expert who's seen every side of it

Mainstay Energy Advisors is led by Ryan Park, a Hawaiʻi clean-energy professional with over 25 years of experience across the USA in residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar and storage. Ryan has seen multiple generations of industry change — from rooftop sales models to grid-scale projects, storage economics, and utility tariffs — along with the realities of Hawaiʻi's energy economics and what it takes to get a system built right. That whole-picture experience is what shapes your plan.

Residential Commercial Utility-scale Storage 25+ years

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Savings figures are personalized estimates, not guarantees. Your actual results depend on your home, usage, equipment, installation, weather, utility rates and tariffs, incentive eligibility, and financing. We'll explain the key assumptions behind your estimate before you commit.