Home solar
Find out whether your roof and your bill make it worth doing, before anyone designs you a system.
Check my fitKane and McHenry counties · Illinois
Solar installation and repair in Elgin and the northwest suburbs, Illinois
We install new systems, take panels off when your roof needs work, and fix systems other companies walked away from. Based in Rockford since 2021.
Local intro
The utility here, and the drive from Rockford.
This page covers Elgin, Huntley, Hampshire, Pingree Grove, Crystal Lake, Algonquin, McHenry and Woodstock in Kane and McHenry counties, Illinois. These towns sit east of Rockford along I-90 and US-20, at the far edge of where we work. Five business days is the response window we publish, and it holds here as it does in Rockford. If your address is on the edge of that, send it and we'll tell you straight whether we can serve you properly.
ComEd. ComEd serves every town on this page: Elgin, Hampshire and Pingree Grove in Kane County, Crystal Lake, McHenry and Woodstock in McHenry County, and Huntley and Algonquin, which straddle the county line.
Permitting
How a permit runs in Elgin and the northwest suburbs.
We pull the permit and file the utility interconnection on every job. Here is who issues it and what they ask for.
City of Elgin
Elgin holds a 2023 SolSmart Gold designation, up from Silver in 2019, which means the city has streamlined its solar permitting and inspection process against a national standard.
SourceCity of Crystal Lake Building Division
Crystal Lake's Building Division, (815) 356-3605, takes permit applications around the clock through its ez APP online system. There is no solar-specific checklist, so an array goes in as a building and electrical permit.
SourceCity of McHenry
McHenry has a dedicated solar chapter in its code, Title 10, Chapter 12, covering permits, location, height and setback, low-slope roof installation, roof access, wind pressure and inspections.
SourceVillage of Huntley
Huntley, (847) 515-5200, has no solar-specific form; an array is permitted as building and electrical work.
SourceMcHenry County Planning and Development
Unincorporated McHenry County permits through Planning and Development, (815) 334-4560, which moved to a new digital permit system at the end of January 2025.
SourceServices offered
What we do in Elgin and the northwest suburbs.
Service and repair
Offline, underproducing, or the company that installed it is gone. $400 covers the visit and the first two hours. On site within five business days.
Request service
Detach and reinstall
Panels have to come off before a roofer can touch the deck, and they have to go back on without voiding your warranty or your roof.
Start a roof review
Storm solar check
Get the solar side checked before the roofer starts. We document what happened to the array, coordinate the removal, and put it back properly.
Storm Solar Check
Commercial solar
The 30% credit is alive for business-owned systems, with depreciation on top, though the project has to be in service by 31 December 2027.
Commercial solarIncentives
What Illinois Shines pays here.
ComEd serves this area, which puts a home here in Illinois Shines Group B. The program buys fifteen years of your system's renewable energy credits at a price the state fixes for each program year; since 1 June 2026 a home-scale system receives 50% at energization and the rest over six years. Illinois Shines figures are estimates until the program approves them, and Illinois Shines is not free solar.
ComEd also pays a distributed generation rebate of $300 per kW on a system interconnected with a smart inverter, and Illinois lets you file form PTAX-330 so the array should not raise your assessment once you file the claim form.
The federal residential credit ended for installations completed after 31 December 2025. Business-owned systems still qualify for the 30% Section 48E credit if the project is in service by 31 December 2027. See what changed in 2026 for the full picture.
See what's still availableTell us what you need.
Whether that's a quote, a second opinion on someone else's quote, or a system that stopped working, you'll get a straight answer and a real next step.
Tell us what you need
Tell us what's going on. If solar doesn't suit your roof we'll say so on the first call.