San Diego energy tech decisions · local AI help
Solar quote or local AI? Get the energy-tech read.
A local, vendor-neutral second opinion for solar quotes, battery math, EV load, backup power, and local AI compute. Send the messy materials. SideGuy turns them into a decision: good, wait, walk, cloud, local, or hybrid.
No installer commission. No hardware reseller angle. No vendor funnel. If the answer is "do not buy this yet," that is the answer you get.
What This Is For
San Diego energy decisions are not simple anymore. Export credits, time-of-use rates, battery timing, EV charging, backup needs, and AI workloads all collide. The audit is the local translation layer before the expensive commitment.
Solar quote check
Panel count, cash vs financed price, installer assumptions, roof timing, warranty, and pressure tactics.
Battery decision
Usable capacity, backup loads, evening usage, export timing, and whether the battery actually earns its keep.
EV and backup load
What changes when the house or office adds EV charging, heat pumps, outage backup, or a heavier daytime load.
Local AI compute
When repeatable AI work should stay in the cloud, run locally, or pair with owned solar and battery capacity.
Pick the net
If you are testing the idea, use the button that matches the decision. The first text tells PJ which signal caught: solar quote, battery, or local AI compute.
Solar quote
Battery / backup
Local AI compute
Where Local AI Helps
The useful AI layer is not pretending to forecast every future utility rate. It reads the messy packet, extracts assumptions, catches missing details, and turns the decision into questions you can actually ask.
Homeowner packet
- Solar quote and financing terms
- SDG&E bill or annual usage
- Battery option and backup goals
- Roof age, EV plans, and appliance changes
Operator packet
- AI workload and daily volume
- Current cloud/API spend
- Privacy or latency constraints
- Solar, battery, and runtime schedule
What You Get
- One-page decision: good, wait, walk, cloud, local, or hybrid.
- Assumption check: what the quote, model, or vendor pitch depends on being true.
- Question list: the exact follow-ups to ask the installer, electrician, hardware vendor, or AI provider.
- Cost and lock-in notes: where the bill can run away, where ownership helps, and where renting still wins.
- $250 credit: if SideGuy helps implement the recommended first step within 30 days, the audit fee is credited.
The San Diego Rule
Under California's Net Billing Tariff, onsite generation can offset onsite usage, while exported energy is credited based on grid value and is often below retail rates. That makes self-consumption and battery timing more important than old "100% offset" sales math.
Official source: CPUC Net Energy Metering and Net Billing.
Text PJ the decision before it gets expensive.
Example: "I have a solar quote with one battery, an EV coming, and I also want to run local AI for document processing." That is enough to start.
Text PJ · 858-461-8054