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Ground Up Builders And Design

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Solar installer based in California · installer record #5654 resolved from 73 public installation records.

At a glance

Ground Up Builders And Design is a solar installer with 73 recorded installations totalling 388 kW, dated 2015 to 2021. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 1645th of 6,010 profiled installers by volume and 2,734th of 10,537 nationally. The median installed price across 73 priced systems from all years is $6.15/W before incentives.

Recorded installs
73
Total capacity
388 kW
DC nameplate
Median system
4.6 kW
≈ $28,443
Median price
$6.15/W
all years · 73 priced
Third-party owned
1%
lease / PPA
Battery attach
0%
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2021

Track record

Install volume by year

2015
2$5.84/W
2016
39$6.40/W
2017
14$6.54/W
2018
14$5.46/W
2020
3$4.69/W
2021
1$4.00/W

Bars: recorded installs · right column: this installer's median $/W that year.

Latest records

Most recent recorded installs

DateLocationSizePriceOwnership
Apr 28, 2021Desert Hot Springs, CA7 kW$28,160Host-owned
Dec 28, 2020La Canada, CA5.1 kW$24,000Host-owned
Dec 23, 2020Newbury Park, CA6.4 kW$34,900Host-owned
Mar 6, 2020Whittier, CA5.4 kW$24,006Host-owned
Dec 12, 2018Studio City, CA10 kW$51,500Host-owned
Dec 12, 2018Los Angeles, CA3.5 kW$26,856Host-owned
Oct 23, 2018North Hollywood, CA5.9 kW$29,325Host-owned
Aug 28, 2018Los Angeles, CA5.2 kW$33,930Host-owned
Aug 28, 2018Los Angeles, CA4.1 kW$22,000Host-owned
Aug 28, 2018Los Angeles, CA4.1 kW$22,000Third-party

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Service geography

California
73

Busiest cities

Los Angeles, CA 37North Hollywood, CA 4Venice, CA 2Sylmar, CA 2San Pedro, CA 2Van Nuys, CA 2Desert Hot Springs, CA 1Chatsworth, CA 1

Record

Installer ID
PC-5654
First recorded install
Mar 9, 2015
Last recorded install
Apr 28, 2021
Priced records
73

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How does Ground Up Builders And Design compare with other installers in California?

By recorded installations Ground Up Builders And Design ranks 1645th among the 6,010 installers based in California with five or more records. Its all-years median price of $6.15/W is about 44% above the California median of $4.26/W. Its median system, 4.6 kW, is about 23% below the state median of 5.9 kW. 1% 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 California Coast Builders (73), Clean Power Depot (73) and Eagle Roofing Products (73).

How has Ground Up Builders And Design's installation volume changed?

Ground Up Builders And Design's earliest dated installation on record is from 2015. It has recorded installations in 6 calendar years. The busiest year was 2016, with 39 installations. 2021, its latest year with records, has 1. Its median price per watt moved from $5.84/W in 2015 to $4.00/W in 2021. The most recent recorded installation is dated Apr 28, 2021. No installation in the public records is dated within the last three years.

Where does Ground Up Builders And Design install solar?

All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are Los Angeles, CA (37), North Hollywood, CA (4), Venice, CA (2), Sylmar, CA (2) and San Pedro, CA (2).

Frequently asked questions

How many solar installations has Ground Up Builders And Design completed?

PanelCensus records 73 installations by Ground Up Builders And Design, from Mar 9, 2015 to Apr 28, 2021, totalling 388 kW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.

What does Ground Up Builders And Design charge for solar?

The median installed price across 73 priced systems from all years is $6.15/W before incentives (median system 4.6 kW, about $28,443). 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 Ground Up Builders And Design install solar?

All 73 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in Los Angeles.

Is Ground Up Builders And Design still installing solar?

The most recent installation attributed to Ground Up Builders And Design in the public records is dated Apr 28, 2021; 2021 has 1 recorded installation. Records reach PanelCensus months to a couple of years after installation, so recent activity may not appear yet.

Does Ground Up Builders And Design install leased or PPA solar systems?

1 recorded installation by Ground Up Builders And Design (1%) is third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement; across California the share is 29%.

Does Ground Up Builders And Design install battery storage?

0 recorded installations by Ground Up Builders And Design (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, “Ground Up Builders And Design, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/ground-up-builders-and-design-5654 (data as of September 21, 2026).