Having just read a raft of horrendous reviews for Solar City spurred me to do a review for Mountain View Solar 15 months after we had them install solar on our home in Myersville, MD. Their system was installed with the utmost professionalism, courtesy and consideration for our schedule. It has worked substantially better than they projected and a contractor neighbor has told us their roof work on our very high, very steeply pitched roof was outstanding. We were fortunate in being able to cover the cost from savings and thus avoid the legal entanglements that only seem to add to the woes reported by reviewers of Solar City and other companies who apparently lease you the panels they install thus freeing you from having to put any money down. They also seem to gobble up the incentives and most of the actual savings from your solar. It would appear to us that anyone who could take out a simple home equity loan to finance their solar install with a company like MTV, or any of a host of others, would be miles ahead. In our case we got an outstanding system which for 15 months has produced 100% of the electricity needed to power our 4000SF all electric home (two zone heat pumps and all electric kitchen). MTV projected only 77% of our usage would be produced by the panels they installed, the opposite of over promising to say the least. Even with the recent substantial decrease in the value of the SRECs (Solar Renewable Energy Certificates), which are certificates you receive for a system you own in Maryland, regardless of what company installs it, for power you produce, and which can then be automatically sold to power companies who buy them to help them meet legal requirements that they generate a certain percentage of energy from renewable sources, even with the decline in the value of these our system will pay for itself in savings in 5-6 years (and this is assuming it creates no increase whatsoever in the value of our home, a ridiculously pessimistic assumption). We are extremely happy with MTV Solar and with our decision to save ourselves about $3000 a year in bills from Potomac Edison! read more