Permit values
Solar installation cost in Sacramento
Declared value is what the contractor reported to the building department, which is what the permit fee is calculated from. It is usually the contract value excluding tax, and it runs below a retail quote. Treat it as the floor of the market, not the price. Why the permit and the quote disagree.
What the spread looks like
Every valued permit in the window, grouped by declared value. The last bar holds everything above the 95th percentile, so one unusually large job does not flatten the rest.
By city
| City | Permits | Median | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento | 749 | $28,000 | $20,150 – $34,287 |
| Carmichael | 101 | $29,000 | $21,840 – $40,275 |
| Antelope | 84 | $29,000 | $22,001 – $35,150 |
| Fair Oaks | 62 | $32,000 | $21,278 – $36,850 |
| Orangevale | 46 | $33,963 | $22,110 – $46,663 |
Month by month
| Month | Permits valued | Median |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 383 | $26,091 |
| September 2026 | 478 | $29,000 |
| October 2026 | 327 | $28,000 |
Complete calendar months only. The current month is left out until it ends.
Who pulled the most solar permits in Sacramento
By permit count over the same window, out of the contractors the building departments name.
- 1ILUM SOLAR281 (26.1%)
- 2ES SOLAR LLC157 (14.6%)
- 3NORTH VALLEY LLC110 (10.2%)
- 4HAVEN ENERGY SERVICES INC65 (6%)
- 5AXIA SOLAR CORP53 (4.9%)
- 6NANOFY CALIFORNIA LLC53 (4.9%)
- 7NANOFY OF CALIFORNIA LLC50 (4.6%)
- 8GIGAWATT CALIFORNIA LLC36 (3.3%)
- 9TESLA ENERGY OPERATIONS INC27 (2.5%)
- 10MARS HOME SOLUTIONS LLC23 (2.1%)
Method
Permit Dawn reads the building departments in Sacramento County permits, updated daily, with typed re-roof, solar and pool categories and contractor names, plus City of Sacramento issued permits. every night and keeps every residential permit they publish. This page counts the solar permits issued in August 2026, September 2026, October 2026 — 1,216 of them, 1,189 carrying a declared value (98%). Duplicates and permits a city later re-published are excluded, along with values below $500 and above $2,000,000, which are placeholders rather than jobs. Medians and quartiles, not averages: a handful of very large jobs would drag a mean somewhere no homeowner would recognise.