North State Solar
Recently activeSolar installer based in California · installer record #70227 resolved from 842 public installation records.
At a glance
North State Solar is a solar installer with 842 recorded installations totalling 14.9 MW, dated 2008 to 2025. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 300th of 6,010 profiled installers by volume and 487th of 10,537 nationally. The median installed price across 533 priced systems from all years is $3.78/W before incentives.
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 | North State Solar | California median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | $3.49/W | $3.80/W | −8% |
| 2021 | 7 | $4.00/W | $3.98/W | +1% |
| 2020 | 7 | $3.54/W | $3.97/W | −11% |
| 2019 | 51 | $3.49/W | $3.95/W | −12% |
| 2018 | 95 | $3.59/W | $4.01/W | −10% |
| 2017 | 87 | $3.83/W | $4.05/W | −5% |
| 2016 | 198 | $3.90/W | $4.37/W | −11% |
| 2015 | 73 | $3.87/W | $4.58/W | −16% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2025 | Paradise, CA | 2.9 kW | $10,100 | Host-owned |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Paradise, CA | 8.6 kW | $29,300 | Host-owned |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Gridley, CA | 6.2 kW | $22,000 | Host-owned |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Williams, CA | 4.3 kW | $14,000 | Host-owned |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Anderson, CA | 4.9 kW | $25,000 | Host-owned |
| Jan 25, 2024 | Cottonwood, CA | 15.4 kW | $53,670 | Host-owned |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Biggs, CA | 58.5 kW | $100,000 | Host-owned |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Meridian, CA | 6.6 kW | $23,440 | Host-owned |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Red Bluff, CA | 19.5 kW | $63,000 | Host-owned |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Maxwell, CA | 180.1 kW | $663,742 | Host-owned |
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Service geography
- California
- 842
Busiest cities
Record
- Installer ID
- PC-70227
- First recorded install
- Jan 14, 2008
- Last recorded install
- Dec 5, 2025
- Priced records
- 533
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How does North State Solar compare with other installers in California?
By recorded installations North State Solar ranks 300th among the 6,010 installers based in California with five or more records. Its all-years median price of $3.78/W is about 11% below the California median of $4.26/W. Its median system, 9.1 kW, is about 53% above the state median of 5.9 kW. under 1% of its recorded installations are third-party owned (lease or power-purchase agreement), against 29% across California. 2% include battery storage, compared with 16% of California records. Installers of similar recorded volume in California include Larsun (850), Better Earth Electric (848) and Stem (846).
How has North State Solar's installation volume changed?
North State Solar's earliest dated installation on record is from 2008. It has recorded installations in 16 calendar years. The busiest year was 2016, with 209 installations. 2025, its latest year with records, has 1. Its median price per watt moved from $3.87/W in 2015 to $3.52/W in 2025. The most recent recorded installation is dated Dec 5, 2025.
Where does North State Solar install solar?
All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are Chico, CA (93), Colusa, CA (71), Oroville, CA (60), Gridley, CA (47) and Orland, CA (46).
Frequently asked questions
How many solar installations has North State Solar completed?
PanelCensus records 842 installations by North State Solar, from Jan 14, 2008 to Dec 5, 2025, totalling 14.9 MW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.
What does North State Solar charge for solar?
The median installed price across 533 priced systems from all years is $3.78/W before incentives (median system 9.1 kW, about $36,000). 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 North State Solar install solar?
All 842 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in Chico.
Is North State Solar still installing solar?
The most recent installation attributed to North State Solar in the public records is dated Dec 5, 2025; 2025 has 1 recorded installation. Records reach PanelCensus months to a couple of years after installation, so recent activity may not appear yet.
Does North State Solar install leased or PPA solar systems?
1 recorded installation by North State Solar (under 1%) is third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement; across California the share is 29%.
Does North State Solar install battery storage?
15 recorded installations by North State Solar (2%) 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, “North State Solar, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/north-state-solar-70227 (data as of September 21, 2026).