Solar for Mendota Heights families, businesses & farms.
Local, family-owned solar, battery and EV charging for Mendota Heights — 4.9 stars, 30-year warranty, the same crew start to finish.
Your neighbors in Mendota Heights are going solar
We’ve installed solar on four Mendota Heights homes now, and the city keeps us on our toes because the housing stock varies so much block to block. Friendly Hills is classic 1950s ramblers and split-levels on flat lots with roofs that are simple to work with. Ivy Falls and the streets around Somerset Country Club are older, wooded, and hillier, with bigger custom homes tucked under mature oaks. Copperfield and Kensington came later, mostly 1980s and 90s two-stories with steeper, more cut-up rooflines, and around Rogers Lake you get a mix of eras plus the shading questions that come with lakeshore trees. Each of those areas calls for a different design approach, and having crews from just up the river in Saint Paul Park means we’ve climbed on most of these roof types many times over.
Where solar produces best in Mendota Heights
The best production in Mendota Heights tends to come out of Friendly Hills and the flatter mid-century blocks off Dodd Road, where rambler roofs give you one or two big uninterrupted planes and the boulevard trees, while mature, usually sit low enough that a roof clears them for most of the day. Copperfield and Kensington homes can do very well too. The two-story rooflines are more complicated, but the extra height lifts panels above the 1980s-era plantings, and many of these houses have a clean south- or west-facing plane over the garage that carries a strong array on its own.
Ivy Falls and the older Somerset-area lots are the harder cases, big oaks and maples that have had sixty-plus years to spread. There we shade-map the roof through the seasons before quoting anything, and we design with microinverters or optimizers so one shaded panel doesn’t drag down the rest. On complex Copperfield roofs we’ll split an array across two or three planes rather than force it onto one. Mendota Heights doesn’t have much acreage, so ground mounts are rare here; a well-designed roof array is almost always the answer.
Solar for every Mendota Heights property.
Homeowners, businesses and farms in Mendota Heights 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
Mendota Heights-area businesses stack the 30% ITC, depreciation and demand-charge savings for fast payback — on the roof or on the ground.
Farms & acreage
Mendota Heights-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 Mendota Heights place a good fit?
We look at what actually drives production in Mendota Heights (Dakota County).
Homes & roofs
Mendota Heights runs from 1950s ramblers and split-levels in Friendly Hills to 1980s-90s two-stories in Copperfield and Kensington, plus larger custom homes around Ivy Falls and Somerset. That means everything from simple low-pitch gables to steep, multi-plane roofs, and we design differently for each.
Trees & shading
Tree cover follows the age of the neighborhood. Ivy Falls and the Somerset area have the heaviest mature-oak canopy, Rogers Lake lots deal with shoreline trees, while Friendly Hills and newer Copperfield streets are generally more open. We shade-map every roof before we quote.
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 Mendota Heights system for the full year.
Local power & incentives
Mendota Heights is served by Xcel Energy, and the city actually works with Xcel directly through the Partners in Energy program. For your install, that means Xcel’s interconnection process and net metering, and their Solar*Rewards incentive when funding rounds are open. We handle the interconnection application, the incentive paperwork, and the utility inspection scheduling so you don’t have to.
Local design, honest numbers
We design each Mendota Heights 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 Mendota Heights
Pairing storage with solar keeps your Mendota Heights 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…”
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“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…”
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“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 Mendota Heights?
Yes. Panels actually run more efficiently in the cold, snow slides off the smooth glass, and our honest Mendota Heights estimates already bake in winter losses. Strong spring-through-fall production more than makes up for the short December days.
Which utility serves Mendota Heights, and do you handle the paperwork?
Mendota Heights is Xcel Energy territory, there’s no split coverage here like some Dakota County cities that straddle Dakota Electric lines. Yes, we handle all of it: the Xcel interconnection application, net metering setup, Solar*Rewards paperwork when the program has funding, and coordinating the final utility approval before your system gets switched on. You’ll see the application come through for your signature, and that’s about the extent of your homework.
My Mendota Heights 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 Mendota Heights 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 Mendota Heights-area businesses, farms and acreage. Same local family crew.
How do I get a real number for my Mendota Heights 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 in Ivy Falls with big mature oaks over most of my roof. Is solar even worth looking at?
Sometimes yes, sometimes honestly no, and we’ll tell you which. Ivy Falls and the older Somerset-area lots have some of the heaviest tree canopy in Mendota Heights, so we start with a shade analysis that models sun across the whole year, not just a summer afternoon. Plenty of these homes have one roof plane, often over the garage or facing the street, that clears the canopy and supports a solid smaller array with microinverters. If the numbers don’t work, we’d rather say so than sell you a system that underperforms.
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