Western Electric
Recently activeSolar installer based in California · installer record #13805 resolved from 63 public installation records.
At a glance
Western Electric is a solar installer with 63 recorded installations totalling 969 kW, dated 2017 to 2025. All of its records are in California, where it ranks 1782nd of 6,010 profiled installers by volume and 2,966th of 10,537 nationally. Its median installed price for solar-only systems in 2025 is $2.54/W before incentives, across 11 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 | Western Electric | California median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | $2.54/W | $3.29/W | −23% |
| 2024 | 8 | $2.99/W | $3.80/W | −21% |
| 2023 | 13 | $3.15/W | $4.06/W | −22% |
| 2022 | 16 | $2.77/W | $4.11/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.
Latest records
Most recent recorded installs
| Date | Location | Size | Price | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2025 | Ojai, CA | 4.9 kW | $29,830 | Host-owned · battery |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Ojai, CA | 12.3 kW | $57,000 | Host-owned |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Clovis, CA | — | $47,670 | Host-owned · battery |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Cayucos, CA | 2.8 kW | $12,500 | Host-owned |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Hanford, CA | 13 kW | $25,925 | Host-owned · battery |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Hanford, CA | 11.3 kW | $88,686 | Host-owned · battery |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Fresno, CA | 34.8 kW | $377,000 | Host-owned |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Fresno, CA | 22.7 kW | $39,000 | Host-owned |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Fresno, CA | 83.4 kW | $212,148 | Host-owned |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Fresno, CA | 75.6 kW | $189,223 | Host-owned |
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Service geography
Busiest cities
Record
- Installer ID
- PC-13805
- First recorded install
- Dec 13, 2017
- Last recorded install
- Oct 17, 2025
- Priced records
- 62
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How does Western Electric compare with other installers in California?
By recorded installations Western Electric ranks 1782nd among the 6,010 installers based in California with five or more records. Its 2025 solar-only median of $2.54/W is about 23% below the California median of $3.29/W on the same basis. Its median system, 9.6 kW, is about 62% 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. 10% include battery storage, compared with 16% of California records. Installers of similar recorded volume in California include Solaralos (63), Sunlife Residential Contracting 1 (63) and Tsp Solar Sales And Services (63).
How has Western Electric's installation volume changed?
Western Electric's earliest dated installation on record is from 2017. It has recorded installations in 8 calendar years. The busiest year was 2022, with 16 installations. 2025, its latest year with records, has 15. Its median price per watt moved from $5.72/W in 2017 to $2.59/W in 2025. The most recent recorded installation is dated Oct 17, 2025.
Where does Western Electric install solar?
All recorded installations are in California. The cities with the most of its installations are Fresno, CA (24), Hanford, CA (11), Clovis, CA (6), San Diego, CA (4) and Ojai, CA (3).
Frequently asked questions
How many solar installations has Western Electric completed?
PanelCensus records 63 installations by Western Electric, from Dec 13, 2017 to Oct 17, 2025, totalling 969 kW of capacity. Public reporting varies by state, so the company's true total may be higher.
What does Western Electric charge for solar?
For solar-only systems installed in 2025, the median reported price is $2.54/W before incentives, across 11 priced systems. The California median on the same basis is $3.29/W. Across all 62 priced systems since 2017, including battery systems, the median is $3.12/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 Western Electric install solar?
All 63 recorded installations are in California, the most of them in Fresno.
Is Western Electric still installing solar?
The most recent installation attributed to Western Electric in the public records is dated Oct 17, 2025; 2025 has 15 recorded installations. Records reach PanelCensus months to a couple of years after installation, so recent activity may not appear yet.
Does Western Electric install leased or PPA solar systems?
0 recorded installations by Western Electric (0%) are third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement; across California the share is 29%.
Does Western Electric install battery storage?
6 recorded installations by Western Electric (10%) include a battery.
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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, “Western Electric, solar installer (California)”, https://panelcensus.com/installers/california/western-electric-13805 (data as of September 21, 2026).