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Don Whipple Construction

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Solar installer based in California · installer record #3686 resolved from 21 public installation records.

At a glance

Don Whipple Construction is a solar installer with 21 recorded installations totalling 133 kW, dated 2009 to 2017. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 2991st of 6,010 profiled installers by volume and 5,047th of 10,537 nationally. The median installed price across 18 priced systems from all years is $5.78/W before incentives.

Recorded installs
21
Total capacity
133 kW
DC nameplate
Median system
6.5 kW
≈ $33,586
Median price
$5.78/W
all years · 18 priced
Third-party owned
0%
lease / PPA
Battery attach
0%
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2017

Track record

Install volume by year

2009
1
2010
5
2011
4
2012
3
2013
3
2015
3
2017
2

Recorded installs per year.

Latest records

Most recent recorded installs

DateLocationSizePriceOwnership
Mar 29, 2017Clovis, CA7 kW$20,000Host-owned
Feb 10, 2017Fresno, CA7.3 kW$20,160Host-owned
Jul 15, 2015Reedley, CA6.2 kW—Host-owned
Apr 14, 2015Fresno, CA5.2 kW—Host-owned
Jan 28, 2015Reedley, CA5.4 kW—Host-owned
May 17, 2013Fresno, CA5.5 kW$22,343Host-owned
May 13, 2013Clovis, CA6.8 kW$28,882Host-owned
Apr 9, 2013Clovis, CA4.3 kW$28,648Host-owned
Oct 31, 2012Fresno, CA4.7 kW$36,600Host-owned
Aug 27, 2012Clovis, CA6.7 kW$29,185Host-owned

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Service geography

California
21

Busiest cities

Fresno, CA 11Clovis, CA 7Reedley, CA 2Selma, CA 1

Record

Installer ID
PC-3686
First recorded install
Sep 21, 2009
Last recorded install
Mar 29, 2017
Priced records
18

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How does Don Whipple Construction compare with other installers in California?

By recorded installations Don Whipple Construction ranks 2991st among the 6,010 installers based in California with five or more records. Its all-years median price of $5.78/W is about 36% above the California median of $4.26/W. Its median system, 6.5 kW, is roughly in line with the state median of 5.9 kW. 0% of its recorded installations are third-party owned (lease or power-purchase agreement), against 29% across California. 0% include battery storage, compared with 16% of California records. Installers of similar recorded volume in California include Clark Electrical Contractors (21), Distributed Clean Power (21) and Doble Son Custom Homes (21).

How has Don Whipple Construction's installation volume changed?

Don Whipple Construction's earliest dated installation on record is from 2009. It has recorded installations in 7 calendar years. The busiest year was 2010, with 5 installations. 2017, its latest year with records, has 2. Its median price per watt moved from $8.50/W in 2009 to $2.81/W in 2017. The most recent recorded installation is dated Mar 29, 2017. No installation in the public records is dated within the last three years.

Where does Don Whipple Construction install solar?

All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are Fresno, CA (11), Clovis, CA (7), Reedley, CA (2) and Selma, CA (1).

Frequently asked questions

How many solar installations has Don Whipple Construction completed?

PanelCensus records 21 installations by Don Whipple Construction, from Sep 21, 2009 to Mar 29, 2017, totalling 133 kW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.

What does Don Whipple Construction charge for solar?

The median installed price across 18 priced systems from all years is $5.78/W before incentives (median system 6.5 kW, about $33,586). The California median is $4.26/W. Prices are the total project cost reported to state programs, so they can include work billed with the solar.

Where does Don Whipple Construction install solar?

All 21 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in Fresno.

Is Don Whipple Construction still installing solar?

The most recent installation attributed to Don Whipple Construction in the public records is dated Mar 29, 2017; 2017 has 2 recorded installations. Records reach PanelCensus months to a couple of years after installation, so recent activity may not appear yet.

Does Don Whipple Construction install leased or PPA solar systems?

0 recorded installations by Don Whipple Construction (0%) are third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement; across California the share is 29%.

Does Don Whipple Construction install battery storage?

0 recorded installations by Don Whipple Construction (0%) include a battery.

Related installers and places

Dataset updated . Sources: LBNL Tracking the Sun + permit and program records; installer resolved by exact-normalized name matching.

About this data

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Tracking the Sun, merged with city permit records, state incentive programs and the USGS U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database / EIA-860 plant registers, as published September 21, 2026 — PanelCensus refreshes it as each source publishes new records. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: PanelCensus, “Don Whipple Construction, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/don-whipple-construction-3686 (data as of September 21, 2026).