Solar installations in Franklin County, ME
23 recorded installations in Franklin County, Maine — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Franklin County, Maine has 23 recorded solar installations totalling 65.4 MW of capacity — the 12th-highest count among the 16 Maine counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 0.11% of the county's 21,089 housing units, against 3.0% statewide.
Dataset updated . Sources: LBNL Tracking the Sun + city permit records + state programs + USGS/EIA utility-scale.
Severe-weather exposure: solar sites here have been matched to an average of 2.3 hail and 0 high-wind NOAA storm events — a regional inspection/maintenance signal (proximity, not confirmed damage).
Search every recorded installation in Franklin County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 86 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 27% of that (this county is under-reported in public program data). A yardstick, not dated records.
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Top installers in Franklin County
No resolved installers recorded in this county.
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Installations by year
How does Franklin County compare with the rest of Maine?
The median recorded system in Franklin County is 1723 kW, about 205 times the state median of 8.4 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Franklin County ranks 6th of 13 Maine 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 Franklin County?
The earliest recorded installation in Franklin County dates to 2006. The busiest year on record is 2023, with 8 installations. 2025 has 1 recorded installation so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 9 at the end of 2020 to 23 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 Franklin County?
PanelCensus records 23 solar installations in Franklin County, Maine (65.4 MW of capacity) — about 0.11% of the county's 21,089 housing units (U.S. Census ACS). Coverage depends on Maine's public reporting, so the true total is likely higher.
How big is a typical solar system in Franklin County?
The median recorded system in Franklin County is 1,723 kW, against 8.4 kW for Maine as a whole.
More solar data near Franklin County
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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 Franklin County, Maine”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/maine/franklin-county (data as of October 10, 2026).