The busiest solar installer in unincorporated Boulder County in the last 12 months on file was Smart Wave Solar LLC, with 71 solar permits; 108 solar installers pulled 982 solar permits on homes there from May 2023 to April 2026, and 88% of their permits a year or more old reached completion.
61 of them filed one in the last 12 months on file. The middle filed job value was $28,000. Next were Namaste Solar (57 permits) and Independent Power Systems (33); busy is not the same as careful. Side by side: permits filed, share finished and permits in the last 12 months on file for each firm. Pick what you value and the list re-orders.
Data through April 2026 · updated
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The top 31 of the 61 firms that filed a solar permit in the last 12 months on file, May 2025–Apr 2026, ranked by how many they filed, with each firm's permits in the whole file and the share of its permits a year or more old that were finished. This is volume, not quality: a busy firm is not necessarily a careful one.
| # | Contractor | Last 12 mo | Permits | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smart Wave Solar LLC | 71 | 118 | 90% |
| 2 | Namaste Solar | 57 | 166 | 93% |
| 3 | Independent Power Systems | 33 | 88 | 91% |
| 4 | Photon Brothers | 28 | 95 | 81% |
| 5 | Solar Power Pros Inc | 21 | 27 | 94% |
| 6 | Tesla Energy Operations Inc | 19 | 43 | 87% |
| 7 | Custom Solar | 17 | 38 | 92% |
| 8 | Sandbox Solar | 17 | 27 | 85% |
| 9 | The Solar Revolution | 8 | 30 | 91% |
| 10 | Freedom Forever Colorado, LLC | 8 | 24 | 47% |
| 11 | Elevated Independent Energy | 7 | 13 | 96% |
| 12 | Ion Developer LLC dba Ion Solar | 7 | 11 | 7 of 8 |
| 13 | Complete Solar Inc | 6 | 7 | — |
| 14 | Golden Solar Electric LLC | 5 | 14 | 7 of 9 |
| 15 | Oneworldenergy LLC | 5 | 6 | — |
| 16 | Progreen Solar, LLC | 4 | 17 | 87% |
| 17 | Colorados Reliable Electric LLC | 4 | 9 | — |
| 18 | Are Solar | 3 | 16 | 96% |
| 19 | Suntalk | 3 | 6 | — |
| 20 | PMP Enterprises LLC | 3 | 4 | — |
| 21 | Solar Pathways Energy | 3 | 3 | — |
| 22 | Aftermath Electric | 2 | 4 | — |
| 23 | Buglet Solar | 2 | 3 | — |
| 24 | Telt Ventures LLC dba 1SOLAR (General) | 2 | 3 | — |
| 25 | Bluecore Solar, LLC | 2 | 2 | — |
| 26 | Britestreet Solar Built, LLC | 2 | 2 | — |
| 27 | Cascade Solar & Electric | 2 | 2 | — |
| 28 | Gaf Energy | 2 | 2 | — |
| 29 | No Problem Electric | 2 | 2 | — |
| 30 | Off Grid Solutions LLC dba Ogs Electric | 2 | 2 | — |
| 31 | Seed Solar | 2 | 2 | — |
The 8 ZIP codes with the most solar permits on homes from May 2023 to April 2026. Each opens permits by trade and the most active firms there.
80503 (188) 80303 (181) 80301 (167) 80302 (162) 80466 (63) 80026 (37) 80304 (37) 80504 (34)
Before you move a slider, the list is in a default order built only from the permit record: how much of each firm’s record is this kind of job (weight 30), how often its permits reached completion (25), how many permits it filed in the last 12 months on file (15) and how quickly its permits closed (10). Each measure is ranked against the other 108 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short.
The order comes from the Boulder County permit file, not from reviews: 61 of 108 solar installers filed a permit in the last 12 months on file and 88% of their permits a year or more old were finished. Nobody pays to be listed or to move up, and there are no star ratings or reviews. The sliders and presets change the weights, and the order changes with them. How the records work in Boulder County.
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Solar permits and contractors for other places in Denver and Boulder. Each permit office keeps its own file, so the numbers are not added together.
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We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Apr 2026, the top 3 are Namaste Solar (166 permits, 93% finished), Solar Power Pros Inc (27 permits, 94% finished) and Custom Solar (38 permits, 92% finished).
108 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 71 solar permits in the last 12 months on file and the middle firm filed 2 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed, share of permits finished and usual filed job value. Pick what matters to you and the list re-orders, for example recent activity if you need someone soon. The order comes from the permit record only, and nobody pays to be listed or to move up.
108 firms filed at least one solar permit on homes in unincorporated Boulder County from May 2023 to April 2026; 61 of them filed one in the last 12 months on file.
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Three you can check against this page: “How many solar permits have you filed in Boulder County?” (the middle firm here filed 2; 61 of 108 filed one in the last 12 months on file); “What value will you put on the permit?” (the usual filed value here is $28,000); “Will you pull the permit in your company’s name, and when is the final inspection?” (88% of older solar permits here were finished). All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 108 firms filed 982 solar permits from May 2023 to April 2026, and each firm’s name opens its own permit record. Every number comes from Boulder County Community Planning & Permitting building permits on homes in unincorporated Boulder County (the County's Accela permit layer, which stopped taking new applications on May 4, 2026, so the data ends with April 2026; the City of Boulder and the other cities issue their own permits), with issue dates and declared job values from the Boulder County Assessor's permit file. To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the Boulder County permit office. How the records work in Boulder County →
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 108 solar installers here is shown with its permit record: 982 permits, the share finished and usual filed value. Read reviews on other sites and use this page to check them against the record. Reviews vs permit records →
Every number on this page comes from Boulder County Community Planning & Permitting building permits on homes in unincorporated Boulder County (the County's Accela permit layer, which stopped taking new applications on May 4, 2026, so the data ends with April 2026; the City of Boulder and the other cities issue their own permits), with issue dates and declared job values from the Boulder County Assessor's permit file (the County's public permit feed stopped adding new applications on May 4, 2026): 108 firms filed 982 solar permits on homes in unincorporated Boulder County from May 2023 to April 2026, and 61 of them filed one in the last 12 months on file. The middle firm has 2 permits in the whole file. A short record leaves more uncertainty, and some jobs never require a permit.
The middle recorded permit value is $28,000. That is a filed estimate, not a quote or final bill. See how we compare records.
Most Boulder County solar permits are filed in September (154 against an average month of 100); December is the quietest (65). When each trade is busiest in Boulder County →