About us

We only work for one person. You.

We don't sell panels. We match Northern California homeowners with the right install partner, the right equipment, and the right contract. No quotas. No catalog to push.

Peter Galvez, founder of The Sun Broker
Founder

Peter Galvez.

19 years in mortgages · $1B+ in loans closed · Roseville, CA

I spent almost two decades as a mortgage broker before I started The Sun Broker. In that time I helped families refinance their homes, save thousands a month, and free up cash flow they didn't know they had. It was good work.

But I kept watching the same story play out. A family would refinance, get their monthly payment down, and feel like they'd won. Then PG&E would raise rates again. And again. Within a few years, the savings I'd helped them find were gone — eaten by the one bill nobody could help them with.

I started The Sun Broker because I wanted to bring mortgage-broker diligence to the second-largest bill in the average home. We don't sell solar panels. We don't have a quota or a catalog. We look at your actual usage, match you with an installer we trust, and tell you the truth about whether the numbers work for your home.

If you've ever talked to a mortgage broker who actually had your interests at heart, that's what we're trying to build here — for power.

— Peter Galvez, Founder & CEO

Our standard

Solar is a 25-year decision. We treat it like one.

Residential solar has been sold like a transaction, not a 25-year commitment. Door-knockers, untrained reps, contracts no one explains. We bring mortgage- and real-estate-level diligence to every install.

  1. 01

    Education, not pressure.

    If you can't explain your own deal back to us, we haven't finished the job. We don't move forward until you understand every term.

  2. 02

    No door-knocking. Ever.

    We don't cold-canvass neighborhoods. Our pipeline is referrals, real estate professionals, and homeowners who came to us. The door-knocker / solar-bro model has flagged the entire industry for trust. We won't participate in it.

  3. 03

    Properly sized. No surprise bills.

    Every system is designed against your real 12 months of utility data — not a generic estimate. That's how we help you avoid undersized systems and surprise true-up bills.

  4. 04

    Win-win, or no deal.

    If your home doesn't qualify, we say so. If the math doesn't work in your favor, we say so. We'll talk you out of solar before we'll push a deal that shouldn't happen.

  5. 05

    One standard. Every install.

    Tier-1 equipment only. Full-time-employee install crews, not subcontractors. The same warranty and workmanship standards on every roof. We don't cut corners, and we don't work with anyone who does.

  6. 06

    Transparency at every step.

    You see your real numbers — every assumption, every escalator — in the proposal before you sign. We walk through it together. Nothing's buried.

  7. 07

    Built on referrals. So every install has to land.

    Our pipeline is referrals from happy customers. That model only works if every install lands. So we don't accept anything less than the kind of experience that makes people want to refer us.

"Every homeowner who signs with us should be able to explain the deal back to me, in their own words. If they can't, I haven't done my job yet."

— Peter Galvez, CEO & Founder
Operating partner
Mike Machino, COO and Operating Partner at The Sun Broker
Mike Machino
COO · Operating Partner

Systems & Industrial Engineer, 20+ years in operations including Fortune 100 enterprise work and COO at United Wholesale Lending. Runs the day-to-day at The Sun Broker — operations, partnerships, and the systems that keep every install on track.

Obsessed with customer experience and integrity. The job isn’t selling solar — it’s figuring out what the customer actually needs, telling them the truth about whether it works for their home, and then delivering exactly what was promised. Every decision at The Sun Broker is made with the customer’s best interests at heart.

“If the customer doesn’t win, we haven’t done our job. Every choice we make, every partner we work with, every install we sign off on — the question is always the same: is this the best possible outcome for the homeowner?”

Why a brokerage

We work for you. They work for the installer.

Most solar companies are sales arms of a single installer. We're not.

A typical solar company
Sells one installer's catalog.
  • One brand of panel, one brand of inverter, one battery option
  • Quota-driven sales reps paid to close, not to fit
  • "Solar is right for everyone" pitch, regardless of your home
  • The installer's reputation is on the line, not the sales company's
The Sun Broker
Shops the whole market for you.
  • Multiple equipment options matched to your roof and usage
  • No quotas. Paid by results, not by closing the wrong deal
  • "Not every home qualifies." We tell you straight when it doesn't
  • Our reputation rides on every install we send to a partner
The Continuum installer team standing in front of a Powered by Continuum van outside a modern Northern California home with rooftop solar panels.
Proud partner

Why we chose Continuum.

After two years of vetting installers across NorCal, Continuum (formerly North Valley Power) was the only one we'd put on our own homes.

  • 100% in-house crews. Full-time employees, not subcontractors. The same hands on every job.
  • 2,000+ NorCal installs. 4.8-star track record across 388 reviews.
  • Tier-1 only. No equipment we wouldn't put on our own homes.
  • Tesla-Certified, Enphase Platinum, Franklin Authorized. The industry's highest installer tiers, earned by track record.

Talk to a broker before you talk to a salesperson.

15-minute discovery call. No pressure, and we'll tell you straight if your home doesn't qualify.

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