Solar Companies in Lancaster, CA: Who Installed the Most Systems in 2025

Installers who connected the most home solar systems in Lancaster in 2025

Counts from utility records, not a ranking or endorsement. Check each license's status and complaint history on the CSLB's Check a License page (checked Sept. 24, 2026).

Source: California Distributed Generation Statistics (CPUC), Interconnected Project Sites data set, data through May 31, 2026 (checked Sept. 24, 2026).

Home solar in Lancaster by the numbers

SCE approved 1,713 home solar systems in Lancaster in 2025, from 116 installers; the top three were named on 62% of them. The busiest year since 2021 was 2023, with 1,923 (2025: -11%). Another 830 were approved from January through May 2026.

2025 mix: 49% leased or on a power purchase agreement, 51% owned by the household; 83% with a battery; median size 5.5 kW DC. Los Angeles County: 47% leased or PPA, 79% with a battery, median 6.56 kW.

Hiring a solar company in Lancaster

Solar companies in Lancaster, California can get a rooftop solar or battery permit instantly through the City's Symbium portal, which issues it automatically and checks the contractor's licenses on its own. Lancaster Energy, the city's own community choice program, buys the power and SCE delivers it; its Personal Choice plan pays solar owners $0.06 per kWh for surplus at an October true-up. Compare at least three written bids.

Start with your Lancaster electricity bill

Lancaster runs its own community choice program, Lancaster Energy, which buys the electricity while Southern California Edison delivers it, repairs the lines and sends the bill. Lancaster Energy's options include Clear Choice, Smart Choice at 100% renewable content and Personal Choice for solar owners, and you can opt out. A proposal should model whichever option is on your bill plus SCE's delivery charges.

Lancaster's instant permit

Lancaster issues instant residential solar permits through Symbium. The portal starts from the property address and pulls in the parcel's data and permit history. You choose Rooftop Solar or Battery Storage Installation, answer questions about the proposed system, and submit the application and payment online. The City says the permit is then issued automatically, without manual review or an in-person visit, and status updates arrive by email and on a dashboard.

Symbium also verifies the contractor's license and business license as part of the application. That makes the permit a quick check on the company you hire, since the application depends on licenses the portal can confirm. Ask who will schedule the inspection once the work is done.

Lancaster Energy and solar

Lancaster Energy splits the job with SCE: it buys and builds cleaner energy supplies, and SCE delivers the energy, repairs the lines and handles the bill. Its Clear Choice option is described as its lowest-rate option with higher renewable content than SCE, Smart Choice supplies 100% renewable energy, and customers may opt out to SCE.

Solar owners are placed in Personal Choice. If you are already on net energy metering with SCE, enrollment is automatic; a new system enrolls through SCE, usually with the installer's help, and is then moved into Personal Choice. At the end of each month Lancaster Energy tallies the energy you drew and sent to the grid, billing you if you used more and crediting you if you sent more. Each October at the true-up, if production exceeded consumption over the year, it issues a rebate based on $0.06 per kWh. SCE's fixed Base Services Charge, $24.15 a month for customers not on CARE or FERA, stays on the delivery side.

What a Lancaster quote needs to explain

A comparison to ask for

Because Lancaster's Symbium portal verifies the contractor's license and business license on its own, a bidder that says it cannot get the instant permit is telling you something about its paperwork. Ask each bidder to confirm it will file through Symbium, then compare the Personal Choice credit its model assumes for your exports.

Verify the company behind the Lancaster quote

Match the business name and license number on each Lancaster proposal to the CSLB record, then use our contractor verification steps, the quote comparison guide and the PPA, loan, lease and cash comparison. What you pay the utility today is on the Lancaster rates and bills page.

Lancaster solar quote questions