Solar installations in New Kent County, VA
50 recorded installations in New Kent County, Virginia — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
New Kent County, Virginia has 50 recorded solar installations totalling 23.3 MW of capacity — the 48th-highest count among the 108 Virginia counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 0.53% of the county's 9,495 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 2.2 hail and 0 high-wind NOAA storm events — a regional inspection/maintenance signal (proximity, not confirmed damage).
Search every recorded installation in New Kent County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 53 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 94% of that. A yardstick, not dated records.
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Top installers in New Kent County
No resolved installers recorded in this county.
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How does New Kent County compare with the rest of Virginia?
The median recorded system in New Kent County is 6 kW, about 20% below the state median of 7.49 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, New Kent County ranks 19th 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 New Kent County?
The earliest recorded installation in New Kent County dates to 2007. The busiest year on record is 2019, with 20 installations. The county's cumulative total rose from 9 at the end of 2014 to 50 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 New Kent County?
PanelCensus records 50 solar installations in New Kent County, Virginia (23.3 MW of capacity) — about 0.53% of the county's 9,495 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 New Kent County?
The median recorded system in New Kent County is 6 kW, against 7.5 kW for Virginia as a whole.
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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 New Kent County, Virginia”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/virginia/new-kent-county (data as of October 10, 2026).