Solar for Bloomington families, businesses & farms.
Local, family-owned solar, battery and EV charging for Bloomington — 4.9 stars, 30-year warranty, the same crew start to finish.
Your neighbors in Bloomington are going solar
Bloomington is really two cities when it comes to roofs. East of 35W, around Oxboro and the Penn-American district, you get the postwar grid: 1950s and early-60s ramblers and one-and-a-half-story homes with simple gable roofs, built fast during the baby boom when Bloomington was adding ten schools a decade. West Bloomington came later, so you see more split-levels and two-story homes from the 60s through the 80s near Bush Lake, Hyland, and the Normandale area, plus bigger lots and more complicated rooflines. Down along the Minnesota River bluffs the terrain and canopy change again. We’ve installed systems on Bloomington homes, so we’ve measured these roofs, dealt with the city’s permit checklist, and worked through Xcel’s interconnection process here. A rambler in Oxboro and a walkout two-story near Bush Lake are two different solar jobs, and we design them differently.
Where solar produces best in Bloomington
The best producers in Bloomington tend to be the east-side ramblers around Oxboro and the neighborhoods off Portland and Nicollet. Those 1950s homes usually have one or two big, uncluttered roof planes, and because the boulevards were planted decades ago, a lot of the original trees have already been thinned or lost, so shading is often lighter than you’d expect. Homes laid out on the east-west street grid frequently have a clean south-facing plane, which is exactly what you want in Minnesota. Newer two-story homes in west Bloomington can produce well too, they just need more careful panel placement across multiple roof faces.
West Bloomington near Bush Lake and Hyland Lake Park Reserve has real tree cover, mature oaks and maples that shade roofs for part of the day. That doesn’t rule solar out, it just means we design around it: microinverters or optimizers so one shaded panel doesn’t drag down the whole array, and honest shade modeling before we quote anything. Complex hip roofs on 80s and 90s homes get split arrays across two or three planes. Bloomington is fully built out, so ground mounts are rare here, but a large open backyard can occasionally make one worth pricing.
Solar for every Bloomington property.
Homeowners, businesses and farms in Bloomington each get a system — and incentives — built for them.
Homeowners
Cut your electric bill, lock in your rate for decades, and back it with a 30-year warranty. Net metering banks your summer surplus for winter.
Businesses
Bloomington-area businesses stack the 30% ITC, depreciation and demand-charge savings for fast payback — on the roof or on the ground.
Farms & acreage
Bloomington-area farms cut costs on irrigation, drying, dairy and the shop with roof, barn or ground-mount solar — plus the 30% ITC, depreciation and current USDA REAP guidance.
Is your Bloomington place a good fit?
We look at what actually drives production in Bloomington (Hennepin County).
Homes & roofs
East Bloomington is classic postwar housing: 1950s ramblers and story-and-a-halfs with simple gable roofs that take standard racking easily. West Bloomington runs newer, split-levels and two-story homes from the 60s through the 90s with hips, valleys, and dormers that call for split arrays and more careful layout.
Trees & shading
Shading varies block by block. The older east-side grid has lost much of its original canopy, so many ramblers sit fairly open. Near Bush Lake, Hyland, and the river bluffs, mature oaks and maples cast real shade, and we model it honestly before quoting.
Sun & seasons
Minnesota produces strong solar spring through fall, and cold, clear winter days are productive too. Snow slides off the smooth panels, and we size every Bloomington system for the full year.
Local power & incentives
All of Bloomington is served by Xcel Energy for electricity, with CenterPoint handling gas. That means net metering through Xcel plus programs like Solar*Rewards, and it means an interconnection application before your system turns on. We prepare and file all of it, the Xcel paperwork and the city’s solar permit checklist, so you don’t chase forms.
Local design, honest numbers
We design each Bloomington system around your roof, shading and real usage — premium Tier-1 panels and Enphase microinverters, installed clean and permitted by the same crew that starts the job. No subcontractors, no inflated production promises.
Battery backup in Bloomington
Pairing storage with solar keeps your Bloomington home or business powered through outages and banks your daytime production for the evening. We size it to what matters most to you.
Quality work, priced fairly.
You get the equipment, engineering and workmanship you'd expect from the big national installers — delivered by a local, family-owned crew that's here for the long haul. Every system is designed and installed by our own team, permitted and inspected, and backed by a 30-year warranty.
What Minnesotans say.
Real reviews from real iSolar customers — homes, farms and businesses across Minnesota.
“Dan and company at iSolar were great to work with throughout our solar project. Communication was top-notch throughout the planning and install process, and even…”
“10stars!! I am a Sr. Project Manager for Patriot Homes, LLC (a general contractor) The solar panels of a customer of mine needed to be removed and reinstalled to…”
“iSolar installed 15 panels on our home, which has a standing seam metal roof. We have been very pleased with their approach, communication, price and the Solar…”
“Professional and very thorough in follow-up and responses. Their electricians takes time to explain things well and very honest in their pricing. I got an EV…”
“Jon and everyone over at ISolar have been awesome to work with on getting my panels installed and getting me through the different programs offered to me. Jon also…”
“Our experience has been wonderful! We are so happy we made the shift to solar and iSolar was so great to work with at all stages of the process!”
Frequently asked.
Does solar still work through Minnesota winters in Bloomington?
Yes. Panels actually run more efficiently in the cold, snow slides off the smooth glass, and our honest Bloomington estimates already bake in winter losses. Strong spring-through-fall production more than makes up for the short December days.
Which utility serves Bloomington, and do you handle the paperwork?
Bloomington homes are on Xcel Energy, there’s no split territory to worry about here. And yes, we handle all of it: the interconnection application with Xcel, enrollment in programs like Solar*Rewards when they fit, and the City of Bloomington’s solar permit, which the city has streamlined with its own solar checklist. You sign a couple of documents; we do the rest and don’t schedule installation until approvals are in hand.
My Bloomington roof has some shade — can I still go solar?
Often yes. Per-panel microinverters keep your unshaded panels producing even if a tree shades part of the roof, and we map your roof's sun before we design. If shade is heavy, we'll tell you straight and look at a ground-mount where there's room.
Do you do business and farm solar in Bloomington too?
Yes — alongside home solar we install commercial systems (with the 30% ITC, depreciation and demand-charge savings) and agricultural or ground-mount solar for Bloomington-area businesses, farms and acreage. Same local family crew.
How do I get a real number for my Bloomington property?
Book a free, no-pressure assessment. We review your roof or land, your utility usage and your goals, then give you honest production and savings figures — for a home, business or farm. Call (651) 565-1140 or request your estimate online.
I’m near Bush Lake and my lot has big mature oaks. Is rooftop solar even worth it in west Bloomington?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, and we’ll tell you which honestly. We run a shade analysis on your actual roof before quoting, not a satellite guess. Plenty of west Bloomington homes have one roof plane that clears the canopy for most of the day, and with microinverters or optimizers a partially shaded array still performs, since each panel produces independently. If the numbers don’t work, we say so. Selective trimming of a limb or two, done by an arborist, is occasionally all it takes to change the answer.
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