Solar installations in Montgomery County, VA
225 recorded installations in Montgomery County, Virginia — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Montgomery County, Virginia has 225 recorded solar installations totalling 1.6 MW of capacity — the 13th-highest count among the 108 Virginia counties with records, and 1% of the state total. That is about 0.53% of the county's 42,229 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 3.8 hail and 2.3 high-wind NOAA storm events — a regional inspection/maintenance signal (proximity, not confirmed damage).
Search every recorded installation in Montgomery County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 313 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 72% of that. A yardstick, not dated records.
Most active
Top installers in Montgomery County
No resolved installers recorded in this county.
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Installations by year
How does Montgomery County compare with the rest of Virginia?
The median recorded system in Montgomery County is 6.36 kW, about 15% below the state median of 7.49 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Montgomery County ranks 17th 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 Montgomery County?
The earliest recorded installation in Montgomery County dates to 2005. The busiest year on record is 2015, with 40 installations. 2019 has 34 recorded installations so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 77 at the end of 2014 to 225 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 Montgomery County?
PanelCensus records 225 solar installations in Montgomery County, Virginia (1.6 MW of capacity) — about 0.53% of the county's 42,229 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 Montgomery County?
The median recorded system in Montgomery County is 6.4 kW, against 7.5 kW for Virginia as a whole.
More solar data near Montgomery County
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- Solar installers in Virginia
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- Solar in Hanover County· 176 installations
- Solar in Stafford County· 170 installations
- Solar in Richmond city· 153 installations
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 Montgomery County, Virginia”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/virginia/montgomery-county (data as of October 10, 2026).