Solar installations in Franklin County, VA
84 recorded installations in Franklin County, Virginia — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Franklin County, Virginia has 84 recorded solar installations totalling 1.2 MW of capacity — the 29th-highest count among the 108 Virginia counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 0.30% of the county's 28,344 housing units, against 0.51% 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 3.9 hail and 3.1 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 111 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 76% of that. A yardstick, not dated records.
Most active
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 Virginia?
The median recorded system in Franklin County is 7.68 kW, roughly in line with the state median of 7.49 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Franklin County ranks 49th of 93 Virginia 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 2010. The busiest year on record is 2018, with 18 installations. 2019 has 12 recorded installations so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 22 at the end of 2014 to 84 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 84 solar installations in Franklin County, Virginia (1.2 MW of capacity) — about 0.30% of the county's 28,344 housing units (U.S. Census ACS). Coverage depends on Virginia'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 7.7 kW, against 7.5 kW for Virginia 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, Virginia”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/virginia/franklin-county (data as of October 10, 2026).