Building permit leads for solar & battery storage contractors
Solar and energy-storage contractors: commercial PV and batteries, Title 24 new-construction packages, EV charging, and the residential install market, tract wave by tract wave. PermitFeed reads every commercial filing across six SoCal counties nightly and scores each one specifically for solar & battery storage contractors: your trade’s rubric, your trade’s priorities, delivered with a written outreach angle.
What our Solar & Battery rubric watches for
Every filing is scored against themes that matter to your book of business, not construction size alone.
Recent qualified leads for solar & battery storage contractors
Scored 0.5+ for this trade in the last 90 days. Full records include the address, applicant, source portal link, and a written outreach angle.
| Lead | City | Type | Value | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ···· N Eton Ave - 24-Unit Apartment Solar (Title 24) LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $10.0M | 0.90 |
| NEW_CONSTRUCTION permit LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | · | 0.80 |
| NEW_CONSTRUCTION permit LAST NIGHT | Carlsbad | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | · | 0.80 |
| NEW_CONSTRUCTION permit LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $6.5M | 0.70 |
| NEW_CONSTRUCTION permit LAST NIGHT | Glendale | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | · | 0.60 |
| NEW_CONSTRUCTION permit LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $4K | 0.50 |
What one more commercial array is worth
Back-of-napkin arithmetic, on purpose: your win rate and your margins are yours. The feed’s job is at-bats you would not have seen, weeks earlier than you would have seen them. One landed commercial array tends to settle the question.
Timing is the whole product
Title 24 writes PV into new commercial and multifamily, so the new-construction feed is a standing order book. We flag it at filing, while the power package is still three drawings and a hope.
How the signal reads for solar & battery storage contractors
Title 24 writes solar into every new commercial and multifamily building in the state, which means the new-construction feed is a solar feed whether the cover sheet says so or not. Commercial arrays are really three projects wearing one permit: steel, PV, and a service-level electrical package, and the contractor who can hold all three writes the schedule. Residential installs file after the contract signs, so those score as territory mapping. The bids live in carports, rooftops at portfolio scale, and every battery that needs a fire review.
The mandate keeps writing orders
Title 24 puts PV on new commercial and multifamily whether the developer is enthusiastic or not, which makes the new-construction feed a standing order book. The Inland Empire holds one of the largest flat-roof inventories in the country, and every new logistics box files its roof plan in public. Battery attach rates climbed after NEM 3.0 changed the export math, so storage now rides most filings, bringing fire setbacks and plan-check flags you can read from the record.
Interconnection is the tell
A commercial service upgrade is tomorrow's array announcing itself: nobody moves from 400 to 1200 amps without a plan for the capacity. Watching the electrical lens beside the solar lens shows you projects a quarter before the PV permit files. Carports run the same way, filed as shade structures, priced like power plants, and usually bond-funded when a school district is the applicant.
The scale behind that: 27,827 filings tracked across six Southern California counties in the last twelve months, carrying $2.3B in declared construction value, every one read against a rubric written for solar & battery storage contractors. The handful that belong in your pipeline surface. The rest sink.
The national construction-data platforms aggregate these same public records on a slower cycle, fold them into fifty states of noise, and price by custom quote. We collect from the source portals every night, read SoCal only, score for solar & battery storage contractors specifically, and post our prices: $59 to $499 a month, cancel from your own account page.
Field notes for solar & battery storage contractors
- The permit issues in real time and never asks about August: desert solar and the 25 degree nameplateEvery number that moves a Coachella Valley solar job from permit set to Permission to Operate is a 25 degree C laboratory figure, and the only heat co
- Five hours a day, seven days a week: who holds the switch on your customer's batteryThe state pays two dollars for a kilowatt-hour at the hour it picks, and it's the same kilowatt-hour whose export credit D.22-12-056 reset. The one op
- Three days for a rooftop, twenty for a canopy in Riverside: the solar carport permits as a buildingCalifornia streamlined solar permitting and then wrote the streamlining to stop at 10 kilowatts on a duplex. A commercial carport gets none of it, bec
- Nailed in courses, wired in series: which license and which permit reach a solar shingleA nailable photovoltaic shingle less than 0.6 centimeters deep goes down off a nail gun and produces 57 watts. The decision that governs it is made ea
Three patterns that keep paying
The mandated array
New commercial and multifamily carry solar by code. The building files months before the PV contractor is chosen, and the filing prints the roof area.
The capacity tell
A commercial service upgrade is tomorrow's array announcing itself. Watch the electrical lens beside your own and arrive a quarter early.
The carport program
School and campus carports file as shade structures and price like power plants, usually bond-funded with public bid calendars you can read in advance.