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Urban Design Solar

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Solar installer based in California · installer record #13404 resolved from 537 public installation records.

At a glance

Urban Design Solar is a solar installer with 537 recorded installations totalling 4.9 MW, dated 2013 to 2025. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 420th of 6,010 profiled installers by volume and 690th of 10,537 nationally. The median installed price across 489 priced systems from all years is $3.37/W before incentives.

Recorded installs
537
Total capacity
4.9 MW
DC nameplate
Median system
7.8 kW
≈ $27,376
Median price
$3.37/W
all years · 489 priced
Third-party owned
0%
lease / PPA
Battery attach
1%
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2025

Track record

Install volume by year

2013
1
2014
15
2015
63$3.60/W
2016
80$3.26/W
2017
51$3.15/W
2018
89$3.86/W
2019
108$3.24/W
2020
59$3.19/W
2021
61$3.34/W
2022
1$3.36/W
2023
3$3.79/W
2024
1$4.14/W
2025
5$4.62/W

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

Latest records

Most recent recorded installs

DateLocationSizePriceOwnership
Sep 23, 2025Orland, CA22.7 kW$118,000Host-owned · battery
May 30, 2025Paradise, CA8 kW$37,000Host-owned · battery
May 14, 2025Paradise, CA2.9 kW$14,000Host-owned
May 1, 2025Oroville, CA2.8 kW$11,600Host-owned
Apr 16, 2025Paradise, CA2.8 kW$11,600Host-owned
Jul 17, 2024Magalia, CA2.8 kW$11,600Host-owned
Dec 15, 2023Paradise, CA14.4 kW$57,916Host-owned
Nov 2, 2023Chico, CA8.8 kW$29,600Host-owned
Jul 7, 2023Grass Valley, CA32.2 kW$122,000Host-owned
Mar 25, 2022Paradise, CA6.2 kW$21,000Host-owned

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Service geography

Busiest cities

Chico, CA 332Paradise, CA 73Oroville, CA 40Orland, CA 16Yuba City, CA 12Durham, CA 11Corning, CA 6Red Bluff, CA 5

Record

Installer ID
PC-13404
First recorded install
Nov 21, 2013
Last recorded install
Sep 23, 2025
Priced records
489

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How does Urban Design Solar compare with other installers in California?

By recorded installations Urban Design Solar ranks 420th among the 6,010 installers based in California with five or more records. Its all-years median price of $3.37/W is about 21% below the California median of $4.26/W. Its median system, 7.8 kW, is about 33% above 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. 1% include battery storage, compared with 16% of California records. Installers of similar recorded volume in California include Sunpower By Provoltz (546), Ready Home Energy (544) and Sig Solar (540).

How has Urban Design Solar's installation volume changed?

Urban Design Solar's earliest dated installation on record is from 2013. It has recorded installations in 13 calendar years. The busiest year was 2019, with 108 installations. 2025, its latest year with records, has 5. Its median price per watt moved from $3.60/W in 2015 to $4.62/W in 2025. The most recent recorded installation is dated Sep 23, 2025.

Where does Urban Design Solar install solar?

All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are Chico, CA (332), Paradise, CA (73), Oroville, CA (40), Orland, CA (16) and Yuba City, CA (12).

Frequently asked questions

How many solar installations has Urban Design Solar completed?

PanelCensus records 537 installations by Urban Design Solar, from Nov 21, 2013 to Sep 23, 2025, totalling 4.9 MW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.

What does Urban Design Solar charge for solar?

The median installed price across 489 priced systems from all years is $3.37/W before incentives (median system 7.8 kW, about $27,376). 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 Urban Design Solar install solar?

All 537 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in Chico.

Is Urban Design Solar still installing solar?

The most recent installation attributed to Urban Design Solar in the public records is dated Sep 23, 2025; 2025 has 5 recorded installations. Records reach PanelCensus months to a couple of years after installation, so recent activity may not appear yet.

Does Urban Design Solar install leased or PPA solar systems?

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

Does Urban Design Solar install battery storage?

6 recorded installations by Urban Design Solar (1%) 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, “Urban Design Solar, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/urban-design-solar-13404 (data as of September 21, 2026).