Solar for Minnetonka families, businesses & farms.

Your neighbors in Minnetonka are going solar

Minnetonka is one of the most wooded suburbs we work in, and that shapes every solar design we do here. The city built out mostly between the 1950s and the 1980s, so you get midcentury ramblers and split-levels in Williston and Glen Lake, established two-stories around Groveland and Minnetonka Mills, and newer construction toward Kingswood and the southwestern edge. Lots run bigger than most first-ring suburbs, and neighborhoods like Sherwood Forest, Tonkawood, and Covington are exactly what they sound like: winding roads under a heavy oak and maple canopy. We’ve completed installs in Minnetonka, so we know the drill by now: shade study first, honest numbers second, panels only where they’ll actually earn their keep. The city itself is easy to work with on permits, which helps too.

Where solar produces best in Minnetonka

The best producers in Minnetonka tend to be homes with a clean south- or west-facing roof plane and younger tree cover. That points to the newer construction around Kingswood-Ashcroft-Stratford in the southwest, where houses are more recently built and the woods are lighter, and to open stretches near Spring Lake and the Ridgedale area where sightlines to the southern sky are clearer. Two-story homes from the 70s and 80s often help their own cause here, the extra roof height gets panels up above neighboring tree lines. Simple gable roofs on ramblers in Williston can do well too, as long as the yard oaks haven’t grown over the ridge.

Plenty of Minnetonka homes sit under 60-year-old canopy in Tonkawood, Sherwood Forest, or Covington, and we don’t pretend otherwise. We run a shade analysis before quoting anything, then design around it: microinverters or optimizers so one shaded panel doesn’t drag down the row, arrays split across two or three roof planes on complex hip roofs, and selective placement that skips the worst hours of shade. On the larger wooded lots common in western Minnetonka, a ground mount in a sunny corner of the yard is sometimes the better answer than the roof.

Local design, honest numbers

We design each Minnetonka 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 Minnetonka

Pairing storage with solar keeps your Minnetonka 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.