Essential Design Innovator
Recently activeSolar installer based in California · installer record #4501 resolved from 32 public installation records.
At a glance
Essential Design Innovator is a solar installer with 32 recorded installations totalling 132 kW, dated 2023 to 2025. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 2484th of 6,010 profiled installers by volume and 4,164th of 10,537 nationally. Its median installed price for solar-only systems in 2023–2025 is $3.75/W before incentives, across 31 priced systems.
Track record
Install volume by year
Recorded installs per year; prices by year are in the table below.
Pricing
Price by year (solar only)
| Year | Priced systems | Essential Design Innovator | California median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | $4.00/W | $3.29/W | +22% |
| 2024 | 15 | $3.75/W | $3.80/W | −1% |
| 2023 | 8 | $3.75/W | $4.06/W | −8% |
Median installed price per DC watt before incentives, systems without a battery, by the year in the public record. Years with fewer than five priced systems are left out.
Why a company's own figure can differ from this one
- Timing. These prices come from state incentive filings, published about once a year, so the latest full year here is 2025. Prices moved down in many states after 2023; a company's current quotes can be lower (or higher) than its last full year on record.
- Dates. A filing is dated when the program processed it, not when the job was sold, so jobs can land in a different month or year than in the company's own books.
- What the price includes. The filed price is the whole project as reported to the program, which can include loan dealer fees, electrical panel upgrades or roof work. A company's internal figure often leaves those out.
- Batteries. Systems flagged with a battery are excluded here; a battery the filing didn't flag can still raise a year's median.
Latest records
Most recent recorded installs
| Date | Location | Size | Price | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2025 | Fountain Valley, CA | 4.1 kW | $15,000 | Host-owned |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Garden Grove, CA | 6.2 kW | $25,000 | Host-owned |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Garden Grove, CA | 5 kW | $49,093 | Host-owned |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Garden Grove, CA | 4.1 kW | $1 | Host-owned |
| May 22, 2025 | Garden Grove, CA | 4 kW | $15,000 | Host-owned |
| May 16, 2025 | Fountain Valley, CA | 4.1 kW | $15,000 | Host-owned |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Orange, CA | 2.6 kW | $10,500 | Host-owned |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Garden Grove, CA | 3 kW | $12,000 | Host-owned |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Fountain Valley, CA | 3 kW | $12,000 | Host-owned |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Fountain Valley, CA | 3.3 kW | $12,000 | Host-owned |
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Service geography
Busiest cities
Record
- Installer ID
- PC-4501
- First recorded install
- Apr 12, 2023
- Last recorded install
- Aug 28, 2025
- Priced records
- 31
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How does Essential Design Innovator compare with other installers in California?
By recorded installations Essential Design Innovator ranks 2484th among the 6,010 installers based in California with five or more records. Its 2023–2025 solar-only median of $3.75/W is roughly in line with the California median of $3.95/W on the same basis. Its median system, 3.8 kW, is about 36% below 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 Anatone (32), B R M (32) and Clearspot Energy (32).
How has Essential Design Innovator's installation volume changed?
Essential Design Innovator's earliest dated installation on record is from 2023. It has recorded installations in 3 calendar years. The busiest year was 2024, with 15 installations. 2025, its latest year with records, has 9. Its median price per watt moved from $3.75/W in 2023 to $4.00/W in 2025. The most recent recorded installation is dated Aug 28, 2025.
Where does Essential Design Innovator install solar?
All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are Garden Grove, CA (15), Fountain Valley, CA (8), Westminster, CA (5), Huntington Beach, CA (1) and Midway City, CA (1).
Frequently asked questions
How many solar installations has Essential Design Innovator completed?
PanelCensus records 32 installations by Essential Design Innovator, from Apr 12, 2023 to Aug 28, 2025, totalling 132 kW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.
What does Essential Design Innovator charge for solar?
For solar-only systems installed in 2023–2025, the median reported price is $3.75/W before incentives, across 31 priced systems. The California median on the same basis is $3.95/W. Across all 31 priced systems since 2023, including battery systems, the median is $3.75/W. Prices are the total project cost reported to state incentive programs, divided by the system's DC watts, so they can include electrical upgrades or other work billed with the solar.
Where does Essential Design Innovator install solar?
All 32 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in Garden Grove.
Is Essential Design Innovator still installing solar?
The most recent installation attributed to Essential Design Innovator in the public records is dated Aug 28, 2025; 2025 has 9 recorded installations. Records reach PanelCensus months to a couple of years after installation, so recent activity may not appear yet.
Does Essential Design Innovator install leased or PPA solar systems?
0 recorded installations by Essential Design Innovator (0%) are third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement; across California the share is 29%.
Does Essential Design Innovator install battery storage?
0 recorded installations by Essential Design Innovator (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, “Essential Design Innovator, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/essential-design-innovator-4501 (data as of September 21, 2026).