Solar installations in Pittsylvania County, VA
27 recorded installations in Pittsylvania County, Virginia — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Pittsylvania County, Virginia has 27 recorded solar installations totalling 169.1 MW of capacity — the 69th-highest count among the 108 Virginia counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 0.09% of the county's 29,468 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 4.8 hail and 2.9 high-wind NOAA storm events — a regional inspection/maintenance signal (proximity, not confirmed damage).
Search every recorded installation in Pittsylvania County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 80 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 34% of that (this county is under-reported in public program data). A yardstick, not dated records.
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Top installers in Pittsylvania County
No resolved installers recorded in this county.
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Installations by year
How does Pittsylvania County compare with the rest of Virginia?
The median recorded system in Pittsylvania County is 329.5 kW, about 44 times the state median of 7.49 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Pittsylvania County ranks 92nd 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 Pittsylvania County?
The earliest recorded installation in Pittsylvania County dates to 2017. The busiest year on record is 2018, with 8 installations. 2024 has 1 recorded installation so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 16 at the end of 2019 to 27 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 Pittsylvania County?
PanelCensus records 27 solar installations in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (169.1 MW of capacity) — about 0.09% of the county's 29,468 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 Pittsylvania County?
The median recorded system in Pittsylvania County is 329.5 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 Pittsylvania County, Virginia”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/virginia/pittsylvania-county (data as of October 10, 2026).