AI Solar Sales Setter 2026: Aurora, EagleView & $2K Leads

Chapter 1: The 2026 Solar Money Window: Why Appointment Setting Beats Installing Here is the uncomfortable truth that opens this guide: the residential solar industry just got smaller, meaner, and far more profitable for one specific type of operator — and it is not the installer. When the 25D residential clean energy credit sunset at the end of 2025 and the commercial-side incentives began their phase-down, the industry lost the single easiest sales argument it ever had. "The government pays for 30% of it" is gone from the homeowner pitch. What replaced it is a harder, slower, more consultative sale...