Solar installations in Shenandoah County, VA
88 recorded installations in Shenandoah County, Virginia — capacity, prices and the installers doing the work.
At a glance
Shenandoah County, Virginia has 88 recorded solar installations totalling 35.3 MW of capacity — the 28th-highest count among the 108 Virginia counties with records, and under 1% of the state total. That is about 0.41% of the county's 21,319 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 5.3 hail and 3.8 high-wind NOAA storm events — a regional inspection/maintenance signal (proximity, not confirmed damage).
Search every recorded installation in Shenandoah County by installer, size, date and equipment.
Search sites →Independent check:Stanford's DeepSolar detected about 117 solar arrays here from 2018 satellite imagery — our recorded data covers roughly 75% of that. A yardstick, not dated records.
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Top installers in Shenandoah County
No resolved installers recorded in this county.
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Installations by year
How does Shenandoah County compare with the rest of Virginia?
The median recorded system in Shenandoah County is 7.54 kW, roughly in line with the state median of 7.49 kW. By share of housing units with a recorded system, Shenandoah County ranks 28th 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 Shenandoah County?
The earliest recorded installation in Shenandoah County dates to 2008. The busiest year on record is 2019, with 24 installations. 2024 has 1 recorded installation so far. The county's cumulative total rose from 86 at the end of 2019 to 88 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 Shenandoah County?
PanelCensus records 88 solar installations in Shenandoah County, Virginia (35.3 MW of capacity) — about 0.41% of the county's 21,319 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 Shenandoah County?
The median recorded system in Shenandoah County is 7.5 kW, against 7.5 kW for Virginia as a whole.
More solar data near Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah County, Virginia”, https://panelcensus.com/solar/virginia/shenandoah-county (data as of October 10, 2026).