After you ask
What happens between saying yes and switching on
Most of it is waiting on other people — a design team, a permitting office, a utility. Knowing the shape of it in advance is the difference between a quiet month and a worrying one.
Whose process this is
Everything below describes Powur's installation process, taken from Powur's own customer material. Powur is the licensed installation partner. Solar Strive does not sell, permit, or install solar, and plays no part in any stage on this page.
The durations are Powur's estimates for a typical job, not commitments, and the document they come from is several years old — treat them as the shape of the process rather than a schedule. Your consultant is the one who can tell you where your project actually stands.
Powur's marketing carries savings and program claims of its own. Those are theirs about their work, we have no basis to verify them, and you will not find them repeated here.
Where we stop
Solar Strive's part happens entirely before stage 1. Someone in your neighbourhood put clear information somewhere you would come across it; you got curious and asked; we passed your request, with your consent, to the installation partner.
After that we are out of it. We do not quote a price, design a system, pull a permit, or install anything, and we never give a professional opinion about your roof — no numbers for it, no judgment about what it or your electrical panel can take. If someone claiming to represent Solar Strive offers to do any of that, they are not doing our job.
Who you will be dealing with
Independent Energy Consultant
Your primary point of contact throughout. The person to ask when something is unclear or has gone quiet.
Project Coordinator
Runs the eight stages behind the scenes and stays in regular contact with your consultant. You may never speak to them directly.
On-site construction team
Conducts the site survey, installs the system, and carries out the final commissioning. The people who actually turn up.
Powur's terminology, kept as-is so it matches the names you will hear on the phone.
The eight stages
Added together, Powur's own estimates put a straightforward job somewhere in the region of three to four months from signature to switch-on. Delays happen, and the permitting queue is usually where they happen.
- 1
Contract signed
The starting point
You have chosen to go ahead. From here the consultant is your point of contact for anything about the system.
Your part: Ask every question you have now. Nothing later gets easier by being deferred.
- 2
Site survey scheduled
Powur estimates up to four days after stage 1
A visit is arranged so the design can be based on the actual property rather than satellite imagery. Sometimes the consultant does it straight away; sometimes a survey technician comes later.
Your part: Somebody should be home for it.
- 3
Site survey complete
Powur estimates up to four days after stage 2
With the survey done, design engineers draw a plan specific to the property — layout, electrical, structural — ready to submit to the local authority.
- 4
Permit submitted
Powur estimates up to two weeks after stage 3
Final plans go to your local permitting office. Powur describes this as generally the longest part of the process, because it waits on a government queue.
Your part: Nothing. This stage is waiting, and the waiting is not on you.
- 5
Permit approved
Powur estimates up to four weeks after stage 4
Once the jurisdiction approves, an installation date is agreed and equipment is ordered against it.
- 6
Installation scheduled
Powur estimates up to three days after stage 5
The date is confirmed and the crew is assigned. A typical home installation is described as one to three days on site.
Your part: Plan to be home. Clear access to the roof, the service panel, and the driveway.
- 7
Installation complete
Powur estimates up to four weeks after stage 6
The system is up, and an inspection is booked with the local building department. Panels on a roof are not a working system until it is signed off.
- 8
Permission to operate
Powur estimates up to four weeks after stage 7
After inspection, the utility installs the net meter and grants permission to operate. That is the moment the system legally starts producing for you. Expect an orientation session and a closeout pack of documentation.
Your part: Keep the closeout documents. They are what a future buyer, or a warranty claim, will want.
If it goes quiet
Long silences are normal in stages 4 and 5, because both are waiting on a permitting office. That does not mean you should be left guessing — your consultant can tell you which stage you are in and what it is waiting on.
We are not able to chase a project for you or see its status; the relationship after handoff is yours and the partner's. But if you were treated badly by anyone who reached you through us, tell us. That is squarely our business.