Virginia solar leads

Sunlight at Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach is the state’s most populous city in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2025 estimates. For that location, the PVWatts calculator, built by NREL and now run by the National Laboratory of the Rockies, returns a solar resource of 5.01 kWh per square meter per day (checked October 9, 2026).

The figure comes from PVWatts version 8 with its standard settings: one fixed, open-rack array facing south at a 20-degree tilt, at the city’s Census gazetteer coordinates, on typical-year weather from the National Solar Radiation Database. Inland Virginia, steeper roofs and shade all give other values, so the number compares locations and does not predict a particular home’s output.

What Virginia’s net metering statute says

Virginia writes the core of its net metering program into statute. Va. Code 56-594 (checked October 9, 2026) directs the State Corporation Commission to run the program and defines an eligible customer-generator as one whose renewable facility, battery storage included, has a capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts for a residential customer or three megawatts for a nonresidential one, sits on the customer’s own or leased land, and is meant mainly to cover the customer’s own use.

Usage and output are netted over a 12-month net metering period that starts at final interconnection. When a customer produces more than it uses over the period, subsection (E) has the supplierSupplierAny company that provides leads to a buyer, whether it generates them itself or brokers them from publishers. Glossary buy the excess under a power purchase agreement, at the rate in a Commission-approved standard contract or tariff, once the customer asks in writing. Subsection (C) gives the utility 30 days from a residential customer’s notice to decide whether the interconnection requirements are met.

Two further points matter to installers. Under subsection (F), a residential system above 20 kilowatts AC in the territory of a Phase II Utility carries a monthly standby charge. Subsection (G) moves electric cooperative territories to a separate program under Va. Code 56-594.01. A version of the section that takes effect January 1, 2027 (2026 Acts, chapter 762) keeps the 25-kilowatt residential limit and excludes small portable solar generation devices from the definition.

Virginia statutes on home solar property

Two sections of the Code of Virginia deal with solar on residential property (both checked October 9, 2026). Va. Code 15.2-2288.7 lets the owner of a residential dwelling install a solar facility on its roof to serve that dwelling, provided the installation meets the zoning district’s height and setback rules and any local historic, architectural preservation or corridor protection rules. It does not override private covenants or owners’ association declarations.

Subsection (A) of Va. Code 58.1-3661 makes solar facilities of not more than 25 kilowatts DC installed under those rules a separate class of property, wholly exempt from state and local taxation. For other certified solar equipment, subsection (B) lets each county, city or town decide by ordinance whether to exempt it fully or partly. The statutes set no dollar figure, and this page gives none; how they apply to a property is a question for the local assessor or a tax professional.

Virginia counties and cities by owner-occupied detached homes

Virginia’s independent cities are counted separately from counties, so both appear in this list of the ten places with the most owner-occupied single-family detached homes, with their owner-occupied homes and detached shares (ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25032 by county). The table shows housing only, not lead sources.

The Northern Virginia counties lead on numbers but have many townhouses: Fairfax (62.4%) and Loudoun (62.3%) have the lowest detached shares of the ten, while Chesterfield (92.2%) and Spotsylvania (88.0%) are mostly detached houses in the 2020-2024 county data.

Common filters for Virginia solar buyers

Solar campaigns are usually narrowed on four fields from each request, and in Virginia each one lines up with a part of this page:

• Homeowner status: only an owner can sign for a system and the interconnection notice; see the owner-occupied detached homes above.
• Project type: what kind of solar project the homeowner described, in general terms; the exact options are set when the solar form is finalized.
• Timeframe: whether the homeowner plans to install soon or is gathering information.
• ZIP code: the ZIP codes an installer serves, with the county and city table showing where detached houses are concentrated.

The filters for Virginia solar leads are agreed with each buyer during onboarding. Exclusive or shared routing for solar leads is agreed with each buyer during onboarding. The fields themselves are shown on the sample solar lead.

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