Quality First Home Improvement
Recently activeSolar installer based in California · installer record #9771 resolved from 1,722 public installation records.
Data through: California through Aug 2026 (monthly state program data).
At a glance
Quality First Home Improvement is a solar installer with 1,722 recorded installations totalling 7.8 MW, dated 2009 to 2026. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 161st of 6,163 profiled installers by volume and 261st of 10,840 nationally. Its median installed price for solar-only systems in 2023–2025 is $5.57/W before incentives, across 95 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 | This installer | California median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | $5.46/W | $3.29/W | +66% |
| 2024 | 32 | $5.27/W | $3.80/W | +39% |
| 2023 | 57 | $5.82/W | $4.06/W | +43% |
| 2022 | 46 | $5.94/W | $4.11/W | +45% |
| 2021 | 88 | $5.98/W | $3.98/W | +50% |
| 2020 | 127 | $6.35/W | $3.97/W | +60% |
| 2019 | 142 | $5.79/W | $3.95/W | +47% |
| 2018 | 109 | $6.60/W | $4.01/W | +65% |
| 2017 | 170 | $5.98/W | $4.05/W | +48% |
| 2016 | 114 | $5.81/W | $4.37/W | +33% |
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.
Equipment
Module, inverter and battery brands
| Equipment | Year | Main brands (share of systems that reported one) | Year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 202527 reported | Mission Solar 67% · LG 15% · CertainTeed 4% · Sharp 4% | Mission Solar 84%2024, 44 reported |
| Inverters | 202514 reported | Enphase 93% · SolarEdge 7% | Enphase 100%2024, 44 reported |
| Batteries | 202521 reported | Enphase 100% | Enphase 100%2024, 11 reported |
Manufacturer on each recorded installation, as filed with the state program (Tracking the Sun for earlier years). Brand names are grouped by manufacturer family (e.g. Hanwha Q CELLS and Qcells North America count as Qcells). Not every state reports equipment, and battery brands come mainly from California and New Jersey.
Latest records
Most recent recorded installs
| Date | Location | Size | Price | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | Pleasanton, CA | 8.7 kW | — | Host-owned |
| Feb 24, 2026 | CA | — | — | Host-owned · battery |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Orangevale, CA | 5 kW | $10,309 | — |
| Jan 27, 2026 | South San Francisco, CA | 4.6 kW | — | Host-owned · battery |
| Dec 23, 2025 | San Jose, CA | 1.6 kW | $41,859 | Host-owned · battery |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Orangevale, CA | 3 kW | $5,100 | — |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Sacramento, CA | 6 kW | $10,000 | — · battery |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Vallejo, CA | 4.9 kW | $40,000 | Host-owned · battery |
| Nov 5, 2025 | San Jose, CA | 4.9 kW | $50,000 | Host-owned · battery |
| Oct 20, 2025 | San Jose, CA | 3.3 kW | $37,162 | Host-owned · battery |
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Service geography
- California
- 1,722
Busiest cities
Record
- Installer ID
- PC-9771
- First recorded install
- Aug 19, 2009
- Last recorded install
- Aug 3, 2026
- Priced records
- 1,178
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How does Quality First Home Improvement compare with other installers in California?
By recorded installations Quality First Home Improvement ranks 161st among the 6,163 installers based in California with five or more records. Its 2023–2025 solar-only median of $5.57/W is about 41% above the California median of $3.95/W on the same basis. Its median system, 3.9 kW, is about 35% 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. 4% include battery storage, compared with 16% of California records. Installers of similar recorded volume in California include New Power (1,844), Natural Energy (1,833) and Sol Nova Electric (1,760).
How has Quality First Home Improvement's installation volume changed?
Quality First Home Improvement's earliest dated installation on record is from 2009. It has recorded installations in 17 calendar years. The busiest year was 2017, with 171 installations. 2025, its latest year with records, has 67. Its median price per watt moved from $9.89/W in 2009 to $6.82/W in 2025. The most recent recorded installation is dated Aug 3, 2026.
Where does Quality First Home Improvement install solar?
All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are San Jose, CA (455), Sacramento, CA (165), Stockton, CA (71), Milpitas, CA (40) and Vacaville, CA (39).
Frequently asked questions
How many solar installations has Quality First Home Improvement completed?
PanelCensus records 1,722 installations by Quality First Home Improvement, from Aug 19, 2009 to Aug 3, 2026, totalling 7.8 MW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.
What does Quality First Home Improvement charge for solar?
For solar-only systems installed in 2023–2025, the median reported price is $5.57/W before incentives, across 95 priced systems. The California median on the same basis is $3.95/W. Across all 1,178 priced systems since 2009, including battery systems, the median is $6.36/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 Quality First Home Improvement install solar?
All 1,722 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in San Jose.
Is Quality First Home Improvement still installing solar?
The most recent installation attributed to Quality First Home Improvement in the public records is dated Aug 3, 2026; 2025 has 67 recorded installations. Records here run California through Aug 2026 (monthly state program data), so the newest installations may not appear yet.
Does Quality First Home Improvement install leased or PPA solar systems?
0 recorded installations by Quality First Home Improvement (0%) are third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement; across California the share is 29%.
Does Quality First Home Improvement install battery storage?
64 recorded installations by Quality First Home Improvement (4%) include a battery.
Related installers and places
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- Solar installations in California· 2,408,542 records
- New Power· 1,844 installations
- Natural Energy· 1,833 installations
- Sol Nova Electric· 1,760 installations
- Solaire Energy Systems· 1,699 installations
- Solar West· 1,685 installations
- Greenspire· 1,669 installations
Dataset updated . Sources: LBNL Tracking the Sun (through 2025), monthly state program records (California DGStats, NYSERDA, NJ Clean Energy, Illinois Shines) and permit records; installer resolved by exact-normalized name matching and, for state program records, by the systems both sources share.
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, “Quality First Home Improvement, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/quality-first-home-improvement-9771 (data as of September 21, 2026).