Solar installations in Cuyahoga County, OH
320 recorded installations in Cuyahoga County, Ohio — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Cuyahoga County, Ohio has 320 recorded solar installations totalling 25.1 MW of capacity — the 3rd-highest count among the 88 Ohio counties with records, and 6% of the state total. That is about 0.05% of the county's 615,513 housing units, against 0.10% 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 3.2 hail (0.9 severe) and 3.6 high-wind NOAA storm events — a regional inspection/maintenance signal (proximity, not confirmed damage).
Search every recorded installation in Cuyahoga County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 1,152 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 28% of that (this county is under-reported in public program data). A yardstick, not dated records.
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No resolved installers recorded in this county.
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Installations by year
How does Cuyahoga County compare with the rest of Ohio?
The median recorded system in Cuyahoga County is 7.93 kW, about 17% below the state median of 9.6 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Cuyahoga County ranks 65th of 77 Ohio 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 Cuyahoga County?
The earliest recorded installation in Cuyahoga County dates to 2006. The busiest year on record is 2011, with 51 installations. 2025 has 14 recorded installations so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 209 at the end of 2020 to 320 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 Cuyahoga County?
PanelCensus records 320 solar installations in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (25.1 MW of capacity) — about 0.05% of the county's 615,513 housing units (U.S. Census ACS). Coverage depends on Ohio's public reporting, so the true total is likely higher.
How big is a typical solar system in Cuyahoga County?
The median recorded system in Cuyahoga County is 7.9 kW, against 9.6 kW for Ohio as a whole.
More solar data near Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County, Ohio”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/ohio/cuyahoga-county (data as of October 10, 2026).