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Residential Solar

PV installs on single-family + multifamily buildings.

93K permits classified across 12 metros

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Definition

What it covers

Solar PV-system installs on residential-occupancy buildings — single-family rooftop PV, residential battery-storage pairings, and multifamily R-2 PV installs (the installer-class definitional axis: residential-PV-licensed crews work both single-family and small-multifamily). Split out of Residential MEP + Residential Alteration on classifier reclassification; segments are overlap-free, so a permit reclassified here is decremented from its prior segment at the source metro on the same regen.

Methodology

How a permit lands in Residential Solar.

Every silver permit flows through a two-stage classifier. The deterministic stage maps the structured signals — work_class, the normalized permit type, and the building sub-type — into the segment vocabulary where the mapping is unambiguous. The machine-learning stage handles the cases that aren't direct lookups: multi-vocab permit-type strings, ambiguous occupancy spans, and jurisdictions that bundle categories. The segment is the classifier's output, the same axis across every metro — so solar_residential means the same thing in NYC as in LA even though the upstream jurisdictions emit completely different raw permit-type strings.

When the signal genuinely isn't there, we say so. A row with no assignable segment degrades honestly — to its work-nature, then to its raw source type, and only to “Unclassified” when truly nothing is known. We never guess a segment to fill a gap; an honest Unclassified is the floor, and field-level data-quality flags surface when the classifier had low confidence. That restraint is the point — the classification is only worth selling on if the “don't know” is honest.

Coverage

Residential Solar by metro — where it’s moving

Where residential solar permits are classified today, ranked by volume — with each metro’s momentum (the last 90 days vs the prior 90) so you can see where the segment is heating up in your territory. Momentum shows only where we have enough filings to stand behind it. Metros with recent activity link straight into the live browse.

Busiest metro right now: New York City — last 90 days vs the prior 90
Prior 90d1,114
Last 90d1,078

-3% vs prior 90d

Alert me when Residential Solar momentum crosses a threshold.Single-window signal (last 90 days vs the prior 90) — at most once a week, no account.
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Email when Residential Solar momentum in New York City crosses +25%.

Find Residential Solar contractors near your branchEnter your address — see who’s pulling these permits in your radius.
Recent

Recent residential solar permits

Real permits classified into Residential Solar in the last 30 days.

  • 4002 Grace AvenueSolar / Pv$45K2026-08-26New York City
  • 149-27 256 StreetSolar / Pv$79K2026-08-26New York City
  • 4621 Livingston AvenueSolar / Pv$61K2026-08-26New York City
  • 532 Monroe StreetSolar / Pv$44K2026-08-26New York City
  • 21 Piedmont AvenueSolar / Pv$44K2026-08-26New York City
  • 191-48 115 RoadSolar / Pv$53K2026-08-26New York City
Who sells into this

Who tracks Residential Solar.

Residential Solar is a sales-intelligence segment for solar installers and module / inverter manufacturers tracking installation activity. Filter it by metro, rank the contractors pulling these permits, and see the projects worth selling into — the same way across every covered market.

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