Detach and reinstall · Stateline · 2026
Panels off Wednesday. Back on Monday. It rained for two of those days.
Twelve modules, all-new hardware, and a schedule that held through the rain.
Read the numbersWinnebago County · Illinois
Solar installation and repair in Roscoe and Rockton, 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 Roscoe, Rockton and South Beloit in Winnebago County, Illinois. The stateline towns sit north of Rockford on I-90 and US-251, with South Beloit right at the Wisconsin line. 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 much of Roscoe and Rockton, as it does the rest of Winnebago County.
Rock Energy Cooperative. Rock Energy Cooperative, headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin, serves Illinois members in Winnebago and Boone counties from a south office on Willowbrook Road in South Beloit, and a utility directory lists it as the electric provider for South Beloit. The two utilities handle interconnection and net metering differently, so the first thing we ask for on a stateline job is the name on your electric bill.
Permitting
How a permit runs in Roscoe and Rockton.
We pull the permit and file the utility interconnection on every job. Here is who issues it and what they ask for.
Winnebago County Building Division
Building permits and inspections for the Village of Roscoe, the Village of Rockton and the City of South Beloit are handled by the Winnebago County Building Division at 404 Elm Street, Rockford, (815) 319-4350. The county's solar checklist asks for a zoning clearance, an electrical one-line, a structural worksheet with wind, snow, dead and live loads by an Illinois design professional, and an installer certified by the Illinois Commerce Commission as a Distributed Generation Installer.
SourceVillage of Roscoe
The Village of Roscoe issues its own zoning permits, (815) 623-2829 or permits@roscoeil.gov, and says approval can take up to two weeks in the busy season. Whether a rooftop array needs a village zoning permit on top of the county building permit is a question we put to the village on each job rather than assume.
SourceRock Energy Cooperative interconnection
Rock Energy Cooperative runs its own five-step interconnection process. A system under 100 kW uses the co-op's Parallel Generation Application and checklist, a distributed generation fee schedule applies, and the co-op credits your bill on a cash basis each month for energy you send back to the grid.
SourceWork we've done there
Real projects, with the numbers attached.
Services offered
What we do in Roscoe and Rockton.
Home solar
Find out whether your roof and your bill make it worth doing, before anyone designs you a system.
Check my fit
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
Farm and ground mount
Ground mounts, pole barn and quonset roofs, with the business tax treatment explained before you commit.
Farm solarIncentives
What Illinois Shines pays here.
ComEd-served homes in Roscoe and Rockton are 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.
Rock Energy Cooperative members are eligible for Illinois Shines too, but the co-op sets its own net-metering value, a monthly cash-basis credit rather than ComEd's kilowatt-hour credit, and which REC price group applies depends on the grid region the co-op sits in. We confirm both before we put numbers in a proposal.
On a ComEd account, ComEd 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.
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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.