America had a record-breaking 2024, and that success is mirrored within the set up numbers on the 2025 Prime Photo voltaic Contractors Listing launched at the moment by Photo voltaic Energy World. The No. 1 contractor put in greater than 10 GW final yr, a exceptional feat that represents 20% of all the market in 2024.
The nation put in practically 50 GW of recent photo voltaic capability in 2024, the biggest single yr of recent capability added to the grid by any vitality know-how in over twenty years. Quanta Companies, a conglomerate of heavy-hitting set up firms together with Ampacity, Blattner Power, Cupertino Electrical and The Ryan Firm, accomplished photo voltaic tasks in 32 states final yr for a complete of 10.1 GW — and 4.3 GWh of vitality storage — to take the No. 1 spot on the 2025 Prime Photo voltaic Contractors Listing.
“We knew 2024 could be a powerful yr for our utility-scale contractors, particularly when 16 GW got here on-line in This fall alone,” mentioned Kelly Pickerel, editor in chief of Photo voltaic Energy World. “However much more spectacular was how efficiently native markets closed the yr, particularly because the residential market was hit by the dangerous PR that comes with big-name firms closing store. Individuals need and wish photo voltaic, and the Prime Photo voltaic Contractors are greater than able to delivering.”
Installations by Prime Photo voltaic Contractors have been recorded in each state — even North Dakota, which is often final within the nation (even behind Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico) for annual installations. This yr also needs to finish on a excessive word as set up firms proceed to finish the required vitality tasks that can maintain the more and more strained nationwide electrical grid functioning. Because the federal authorities makes an attempt to topple the rising photo voltaic business — which is way outpacing any new fossil gasoline manufacturing — the hundreds of Individuals employed at Prime Photo voltaic Contractor firms will proceed the struggle towards local weather change and misinformed authorities leaders.
“No matter how the photo voltaic and storage industries are mirrored in legislative language, there’s sufficient momentum behind clear vitality to maintain issues shifting in 2025. Photo voltaic Energy World is wanting ahead to the 2026 Prime Photo voltaic Contractors Listing that can have a good time the tenacity of photo voltaic contractors working via this robust yr,” Pickerel mentioned. “However proper now, we’re celebrating the unbelievable accomplishments carried out by photo voltaic set up firms throughout the nation within the final yr. Congratulations to the 2025 Prime Photo voltaic Contractors, and thanks in your dedication to this nice business.”
The Prime Photo voltaic Contractors Listing is essentially the most acknowledged annual itemizing of photo voltaic contractors in the USA. Corporations on the Prime Photo voltaic Contractors Listing are grouped and listed by particular service (developer, electrical subcontractor, EPC, set up subcontractor, installer, gross sales associate), market (business, neighborhood photo voltaic, residential, utility) and states by 2024 put in capability (in kWDC).
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