We build ground-mounted solar for homes with land, and we do not install on roofs.
The work runs across Parker, Tarrant, Dallas, Denton, Collin, Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Johnson and Palo Pinto counties, plus the unincorporated land between them.
If your town is not in the list below, the county almost certainly is.
Springtown, Granbury, Decatur, Denton, Stephenville, Aledo, Cleburne, or unincorporated county land? Yes. Same process, same crew.
We work the whole area, not the eighteen towns that happen to have a page. Every one of those addresses gets the same process: we check which utility serves it, pull the soil map for the parcel, measure the run from the array to your meter, and pull whichever permits apply.
The pages exist because those eighteen towns had something specific worth writing down. Yours has the same facts underneath it.
The fastest way to find out what your land will hold is the design tool. It runs your own coordinates, not a town average.
Eighteen towns have a page of their own, because in each of them something local changes the job.
| City | Who sends the bill | Permit | kWh per kW per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weatherford | Weatherford Electric, Tri-County Electric or Oncor lines | City permit; Parker County issues none | 1,577 |
| McKinney | Oncor lines, Grayson-Collin Electric Co-Op or CoServ | Checklist with a Ground Mount option | 1,528 |
| Heath | Farmers Electric Cooperative or Oncor lines | City permit; Rockwall County runs its own | 1,520 |
| Flower Mound | CoServ or Oncor lines | $200, ground-mount section in the packet | 1,526 |
| Fairview | Grayson-Collin Electric Co-Op, CoServ or Oncor lines | $175, remote inspection available | 1,530 |
| Lucas | Grayson-Collin Electric Co-Op or Oncor lines | None if a third-party inspector is used | 1,532 |
| Midlothian | Oncor lines | City permit, contractor registration | 1,532 |
| Celina | Grayson-Collin Electric Co-Op, CoServ or Oncor lines | $225 in three parts; fence-line height cap | 1,536 |
| Waxahachie | Oncor lines | Nothing solar-specific published | 1,546 |
| Burleson | Oncor lines or United Cooperative Services | Nothing solar-specific published | 1,569 |
| Southlake | Oncor lines or Tri-County Electric | Engineered footing, setbacks, sight lines | 1,578 |
| Fort Worth | Oncor lines or Tri-County Electric | Permitted as an accessory structure | 1,570 |
| Allen | Oncor lines or Grayson-Collin Electric Co-Op | Ordinance is roof-worded; we confirm first | 1,530 |
| Grand Prairie | Oncor lines | Plans and load calculations | 1,531 |
| Azle | Oncor lines or Tri-County Electric | City permit inside the limits only | 1,572 |
| Fate | Farmers Electric Cooperative or Oncor lines | City permit; 12 ft cap, rear yard | 1,503 |
| Rockwall | Oncor lines or Farmers Electric Cooperative | Building permit; 8 ft cap is commercial only | 1,527 |
| Mineral Wells | Oncor lines | City plan review; provider letter first | 1,554 |
Every figure in that last column is a real run for that city's coordinates, not a regional average.
The spread across the whole list is about five percent — which tells you that where you are matters far less than which way your land faces and what is shading it.
Who sends your electric bill. Not what panels you want, not how many.
A cooperative that nets your exported power at the retail rate and one that buys it at six cents will give you two different right answers for the same house, and no amount of equipment makes up the difference.
What every North Texas utility pays for exported solar
Most North Texas cities want a building permit and an electrical permit. Some publish a checklist, some publish a fee, and a few publish neither.
Outside the city limits the list is shorter, though septic setbacks, floodplain rules and your utility's interconnection approval still apply everywhere.
You do not chase any of those offices. That is our job, and we tell you what each one said.
If you are in an HOA, Texas law is on your side but only so far. The state stops an HOA banning solar outright.
It also lets an HOA prohibit a ground mount that sits anywhere other than a roof or a fenced yard.
Inside a fenced yard there is a second rule: the array cannot stand taller than the fence.
Where a fence line does govern, we bring the tilt down on the same frame until the array fits under it — about fourteen degrees puts four modules below six feet.
Almost certainly.
The eighteen pages exist because those towns had something specific worth writing down, not because they are the only places we work.
If you are in Parker, Tarrant, Dallas, Denton, Collin, Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Johnson or Palo Pinto County, or on the unincorporated land between them, put your address into the design tool and you will get the same numbers a listed town gets.
Inside a city, nearly always: a building permit and an electrical permit, and some cities add a plan review.
There is no statewide solar permit and no standard fee — each city sets its own, which is why the table above says something different for each one.
Outside the city limits, most Texas counties have no authority to require a building permit for ordinary single-family construction, but that is not the same as no rules at all.
Usually not a building permit.
Texas counties generally have no authority over ordinary single-family construction outside a city — Parker County says outright that it issues none.
But it varies.
Rockwall County runs a real permitting programme and requires contractors to register; Tarrant issues no residential building permits while still requiring a fire-code construction permit and reviewing floodplain over an acre.
We ask per property.
Across the counties above, and past them when the job makes sense.
Distance costs us a site visit, not a premium on your quote.
If you are far enough out that it changes the answer, we say so on the phone rather than after a survey.
On an acre with a clear south-facing spot and a short run to the meter, usually.
On a wooded lot four hundred feet from the house with rock under it, the trench and the clearing can cost more than the panels.
That is why the design tool prices the trench rather than quoting a price per watt and hoping.
No salesman. No home visit to get a number.
