# Have you heard of Powur (solar panel installation company)? Your experiences with home solar, and some adjacent questions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-powur-solar-panel-installation-company-your-experiences-with-home-solar-and-some-adjacent-questions/1026983 "2026-01-24T16:21:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-powur-solar-panel-installation-company-your-experiences-with-home-solar-and-some-adjacent-questions/1026983/2 "2026-01-24T17:06:54Z")
This recent thread is about everything about home solar. With plenty of experts weighing in. You might learn a lot reading that. > [@Tell me about home solar](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-home-solar/1020878): > > We are currently in the beginning stages of looking for a new house. Yesterday we drove around the area we are interested in looking at some of the houses currently on the market. I’m sure that by the time we are seriously looking those particular places will be gone. Several of them had solar panels installed. This got me curious. I’m not interested in having a green energy discussion. I don’t care if it’s better for the environment if it’s something I can’t afford. I would like to know from p… Everything that is, except Powur, an outfit at least I’ve never heard of. Although I will say that most solar power-related companies are local or regional, not national. Powur might be huge in MO where you are and not available at all in KS or IL. The general shape of the business arrangements you’re talking about are not uncommon. But like any other deal aimed at consumers in an as-yet unregulated industry, there are at least as many abusive deals as there are honest deals. And that’s before we get to the outright scams like MLMs where there’s no honest intention to deliver the product as promised. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-powur-solar-panel-installation-company-your-experiences-with-home-solar-and-some-adjacent-questions/1026983)._