Solar installations in Erie County, OH
32 recorded installations in Erie County, Ohio — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Erie County, Ohio has 32 recorded solar installations totalling 540 kW of capacity — the 35th-highest count among the 88 Ohio counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 0.08% of the county's 38,400 housing units, against 0.10% statewide.
Dataset updated . Sources: LBNL Tracking the Sun + city permit records + state programs + USGS/EIA utility-scale.
Search every recorded installation in Erie County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 73 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 44% 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 Erie County compare with the rest of Ohio?
The median recorded system in Erie County is 10.96 kW, about 14% above the state median of 9.6 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Erie County ranks 45th 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 Erie County?
The earliest recorded installation in Erie County dates to 2008. The busiest year on record is 2014, with 7 installations. 2023 has 1 recorded installation so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 28 at the end of 2018 to 32 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 Erie County?
PanelCensus records 32 solar installations in Erie County, Ohio (540 kW of capacity) — about 0.08% of the county's 38,400 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 Erie County?
The median recorded system in Erie County is 11 kW, against 9.6 kW for Ohio as a whole.
More solar data near Erie 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 Erie County, Ohio”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/ohio/erie-county (data as of October 10, 2026).