Solar installations in Macon County, IL
624 recorded installations in Macon County, Illinois — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Macon County, Illinois has 624 recorded solar installations totalling 47.1 MW of capacity — the 28th-highest count among the 102 Illinois counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 1.3% of the county's 49,699 housing units, against 2.1% statewide.
Dataset updated . Sources: LBNL Tracking the Sun + city permit records + state programs + USGS/EIA utility-scale.
Search every recorded installation in Macon County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 140 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 446% of that. A yardstick, not dated records.
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How does Macon County compare with the rest of Illinois?
The median recorded system in Macon County is 10.66 kW, about 19% above the state median of 8.97 kW. 40% of installations here are third-party owned (lease or power-purchase agreement), compared with 43% across Illinois. 47 systems (8%) of the county's records include battery storage, against 4% statewide. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Macon County ranks 79th of 102 Illinois counties with at least 10 installations. Fewer than 30 systems here report an installed price, so no county price median is published.
How has solar adoption changed in Macon County?
The earliest recorded installation in Macon County dates to 2017. The busiest year on record is 2025, with 247 installations. The county's cumulative total rose from 31 at the end of 2020 to 624 today. Recent years fill in as state programs and permit offices report, so the latest counts are provisional.
Frequently asked questions
How many homes have solar in Macon County?
PanelCensus records 624 solar installations in Macon County, Illinois (47.1 MW of capacity) — about 1.3% of the county's 49,699 housing units (U.S. Census ACS). Coverage depends on Illinois's public reporting, so the true total is likely higher.
How much of the solar in Macon County is leased?
252 recorded installations (40%) in Macon County are third-party owned — a lease or power-purchase agreement, compared with 43% across Illinois.
How big is a typical solar system in Macon County?
The median recorded system in Macon County is 10.7 kW, against 9 kW for Illinois as a whole.
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County assignment is derived from installation ZIP codes via the Census 2020 ZCTA↔county crosswalk (primary county by land-area overlap) — approximate at county boundaries. Market penetration = recorded installations ÷ housing units (U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year, Table B25001); it undercounts where dataset coverage is partial. See methodology.
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 October 10, 2026 — PanelCensus refreshes it as each source publishes new records. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: PanelCensus, “Solar installations in Macon County, Illinois”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/illinois/macon-county (data as of October 10, 2026).