Solar for Richfield families, businesses & farms.

Your neighbors in Richfield are going solar

Richfield calls itself Minnesota’s oldest suburb, and the housing shows it in a good way. Most of the city went up in one big postwar push, so from East Richfield over to the blocks around Augsburg Park and Wood Lake you see the same families of homes: compact 1940s-50s Cape Cods and one-and-a-half-story expansion houses, straightforward ramblers, and a scattering of split-levels and newer infill near Cedar Avenue and the old Rich Acres area on the east side. Lots are modest, streets run on a tidy grid, and roofs are mostly simple gable or hip planes without a lot of dormers or valleys. We’ve put panels on this exact housing stock, and it’s some of the most predictable roof work in the metro. When we quote a Richfield house, we already know what the framing, the roof pitch, and the electrical panel are probably going to look like before we pull up.

Where solar produces best in Richfield

The grid layout does Richfield a favor. Because the streets run true north-south and east-west, a big share of homes have a clean south-facing roof plane, and the ramblers common west of Portland Avenue and through West Richfield give you long, low, uncomplicated gables that take a full-width array. Cape Cods and one-and-a-half-story homes in East Richfield have steeper pitches, which actually helps winter production and snow shedding. Newer infill and the townhome-style construction near the Cedar Avenue corridor and the redeveloped east side tend to have younger, smaller trees, so those roofs see sun basically all day.

The harder Richfield cases are the blocks with big boulevard trees, especially around Wood Lake and the older interior streets where 70-year-old maples and oaks throw real afternoon shade. There we design around it: microinverters or optimizers so one shaded panel doesn’t drag down the string, and honest production modeling before you sign anything. Richfield lots are small and urban, so ground mounts almost never make sense here, but a garage roof or a partial array on the west plane often does. If the numbers don’t work, we’ll tell you.

Local design, honest numbers

We design each Richfield 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 Richfield

Pairing storage with solar keeps your Richfield 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.