We started Trew because the
grid keeps getting worse.
Founded in 2019 in Austin, Texas. After Winter Storm Uri, our co-founders' homes lost power for 96 hours. We started building systems that don't.
Across Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida.
Solar generation across our customer fleet.
Battery capacity standing by for outages.
No subcontractors. We hire, train, and warranty our own.
Solar should make your house tougher, not just cheaper.
Most solar gets sold on payback period. Twenty-five percent off your bill. A graph that bends down. A leasing pitch dressed up as savings.
That's fine, but it misses the point. Power outages in the U.S. have doubled in the last decade. Heat waves, storms, fires, and a grid that's older than most of its operators. The actual question isn't "how do I save 25%" — it's "what happens at 2 a.m. when the lights go out."
Trew systems are sized for resilience first, savings second. Every install includes a battery. Every battery includes solar charging during outage. Every project is permitted, installed, and warranted by people whose names you'll know.
Six principles we don't negotiate.
Storage by default.
Every Trew solar install includes battery storage. No exceptions. Solar without storage is half a system — and the half that fails first.
One project manager, start to finish.
From estimate to PTO, you talk to one person. No call-center handoffs. They have your number and you have theirs.
Stamped engineering on every roof.
A licensed PE reviews every structural and electrical plan. Not a template, not a stamp-mill — a person, signing.
Transparent pricing.
Itemized quote, every line. Equipment cost, labor, permits, soft costs. No "design fees" or "interconnection adders" hidden in the back.
25-year production guarantee.
If your system underproduces our model, we cut you a check. We've done it 11 times in 7 years.
No leases that aren't really leases.
If you sign a PPA with us, the contract is 14 pages, plain English. If you'd rather not, we'll happily sell you the equipment.
A small team, mostly engineers.
38 people across design, install, permitting, and ops. We're hiring journeyman electricians and project managers in TX and CA.
Former grid resilience lead at ERCOT. After Uri, she stopped working on grids and started working on the homes that depend on them.
15 years in power electronics. Designed inverter firmware at three previous companies. Likes batteries. Talks about them too much.
Master electrician, NABCEP cert #4801. Runs the field crews and writes the install manual herself, every spring.
Structural PE. Has personally stamped every Trew rooftop plan since 2021. Coffee snob, climbs in the off-season.