North Dakota solar leads

Sunlight in Fargo

Fargo, North Dakota’s largest city in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2025 estimates, is the reference location. According to the PVWatts calculator of the National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL), a standard array there receives 4.46 kWh per square meter per day (checked October 9, 2026).

The figure comes from the PVWatts version 8 defaults: a fixed, open-rack array tilted 20 degrees toward the south, at Fargo’s Census gazetteer location, using National Solar Radiation Database typical-year weather. Western North Dakota, snow and a different roof would each change the number, which is meant for comparing places, not for estimating one home’s output.

Net energy billing in the North Dakota PSC rule

North Dakota’s net billing provision sits in the Public Service Commission’s small power production rules, N.D. Admin. Code chapter 69-09-07. Section 69-09-07-09(3)(a), amended effective May 1, 1991, says qualifying facilities with a design capacity of 100 kW or less are entitled to net energy billing, in which the facility’s output reverses the meter that measures sales from the utility (checked October 9, 2026). For each facility that opts in, the purchasing utility files an annual report of total monthly energy produced with the commission and may recover from the facility the metering costs of production monitoring.

The chapter applies to electric public utilities as defined in N.D.C.C. 49-03-01.5, and it lets a utility and a facility agree on different rates or terms. The published rule also prints a 1991 objection from the Legislative Council’s Committee on Administrative Rules to the net billing amendment, with a note on the burden of persuasion in any court review. The rule text remains in the code as of October 9, 2026; how it applies to a given home depends on the serving utility.

North Dakota tax and property rules for solar

Two parts of the Century Code deal with solar equipment directly. Under N.D.C.C. 57-02-08(27), installations, machinery and equipment in new or existing buildings that heat, cool or produce electrical or mechanical power, or store it, using solar, wind or geothermal energy are exempt from property tax; where a system also uses other energy, only the solar, wind or geothermal portion is exempt, and the exemption lasts five years after installation and applies only to locally assessed property (checked October 9, 2026).

The solar easement sections, N.D.C.C. 47-05-01.1 and 47-05-01.2, say an easement for a solar energy device’s exposure to direct sunlight must be in writing and recorded like other easements, and must state the verticalVerticalThe industry or product category a lead belongs to, such as roofing or car accident. Glossary and horizontal angles it covers, its terms and any compensation for interference (checked October 9, 2026). Neither statute sets a dollar amount, and none is given here.

North Dakota counties by owner-occupied detached homes

These are the ten North Dakota counties with the most owner-occupied single-family detached homes, with total owner-occupied homes and the detached share, from ACS 5-year 2020-2024 table B25032 for counties. The figures describe housing only, not where leads originate.

The four counties with the largest cities, Cass, Burleigh, Ward and Grand Forks, have detached shares between 76.3% and 81.6% in the 2020-2024 county data, while smaller Richland (93.3%) and McLean (92.8%) are almost entirely houses.

What North Dakota solar buyers filter on

Buyers of solar leads normally filter on a few fields. For North Dakota, each ties to a fact on this page:

• Homeowner status: only owners can sign for a system, and in North Dakota apartments and rentals are a larger share of housing than in most states.
• Project type: the solar project the homeowner asks about, described in general terms; the exact options are set when the solar form is finalized.
• Timeframe: whether the homeowner wants an installation this building season or is researching.
• ZIP code: buyers name the ZIP codes their crews reach across long distances, using the county table as a housing guide.

The filters for North Dakota solar leads are agreed with each buyer during onboarding. Exclusive or shared routing for solar leads is agreed with each buyer during onboarding. The sample solar lead shows the full field list.

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