Most addresses
Dominion Energy Virginia
- Average home rate (2024)
- 14.09¢/kWh
- Paid for exported solar
- credited one-for-one at retail against your own annual usage
- Net-metered home solar, utility-wide
- 53,368
An honest answer · Ashburn, VA
Is solar worth it in Ashburn, VA?
Is solar worth it in Ashburn? For a 9.5 kW system at about $27,550 making about 11,600 kWh a year on Dominion Energy at an average 14.1¢ per kWh, it depends on how much you use at home.
The honest answer · as of August 2026
For some Ashburn homes yes, for others no. Dominion Energy Virginia credits exports at credited one-for-one at retail against your own annual usage, so the deciding number is how much of the 11,600 kWh a 9.5 kW system makes here you use yourself. The median Ashburn home was built in 1999, so many roofs are reaching their second half. We check remaining roof life before we design.
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Local verdict
The honest read on Ashburn
Ashburn is close to the best case we can point at anywhere in our territory, and the reasons are policy and roof stock rather than sunshine. Northern Virginia receives meaningfully less sun than the Carolinas, so a kilowatt of panel produces less here. Retail crediting more than compensates, because every kilowatt-hour it does produce is worth full retail rather than a fraction.
What decides an individual house is the roof and the covenant. Most Ashburn roofs are open, modern and well oriented, which removes the usual objection. The community guidelines are the live question, and SB 504 gives you numbers to argue with rather than an aesthetic debate you cannot win.
There is also a motivation here we do not see elsewhere. A household watching its bill climb because of load growth it has no say in is in a genuinely different position from one shopping on payback alone, and it is reasonable to weigh that.
Written for Ashburn specifically.
What changed
What changed in 2026, and what it does to payback
The federal homeowner credit ended on December 31, 2025. Virginia has no state credit, so the export terms carry the case.
What decides it
Four things decide whether solar pays in Ashburn
What Dominion Energy credits for exports, how much of your 11,600 kWh you use at home, your roof (the median Ashburn home was built in 1999) and shade, and how long you will stay.
Two lists
Who solar suits in Ashburn, and who it doesn't
Solar usually makes sense for your Ashburn home if
- Your bill is at or above roughly $135 a month, what a 9.5 kW system here offsets at Dominion Energy Virginia's average rate.
- The median Ashburn home was built in 1999, so many roofs are reaching their second half. We check remaining roof life before we design.
- Your best roof planes clear the shade: ashburn is master-planned and largely open, with thousands of near-identical modern roofs.
- You use power in daylight, when a 9.5 kW system here makes up to about 1,226 kWh a month.
- You plan to stay long enough to reach payback.
Solar is probably not right for you if
- Mature hardwood shades your best roof planes for much of the day, which is common in the older parts of the county.
- Your roof needs replacing within about five years.
- You are likely to move within five years.
- You need more than 15 kW AC and cannot get written confirmation that your utility has adopted the new 20 kW standby threshold yet.
- Your meter turns out to be on NOVEC rather than Dominion and the cooperative’s terms do not support the size you had in mind.
- You are being sold on a 30% federal credit: that quote is wrong.
Getting to a real answer
What a free assessment actually settles
For a Ashburn address on Dominion Energy Virginia, in Loudoun County.
- Your actual utility and rateAround Ashburn, NOVEC serves some Loudoun County addresses, and the terms differ. This is not guesswork we can do from a map.
- Your real usage shapeFrom 12 months of Dominion Energy Virginia bills, against the 11,600 kWh a typical system here makes.
- Roof condition and remaining lifeThe median Ashburn home was built in 1999, so many roofs are reaching their second half. We check remaining roof life before we design.
- Shade, measuredAshburn is master-planned and largely open, with thousands of near-identical modern roofs.
- A right-sized designOur combined experience averages about 9.5 kW, against the 14.48 kW national calculators assume for this market.
- An honest recommendation, including noYour roof needs replacing within about five years.
Resale
Does solar add to a Ashburn home's value?
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at about $659k. Owned systems generally help resale; leased ones need the buyer to take over the agreement.
Permits and approvals
What approval takes in Ashburn
6 approvals for a Ashburn system. We file every one.
- 01A building permit and a separate electrical permit from Loudoun County, or from the town where the address sits inside one
- 02An interconnection application to whichever utility serves your meter, Dominion Energy Virginia or NOVEC, on that utility’s own forms
- 03Written confirmation of the standby-charge position for any system above 15 kW AC
- 04HOA architectural review, which applies across most of the county’s master-planned communities, subject to the SB 504 limits
- 05An additional electrical permit where battery storage is included
- 06A county application for the solar equipment tax exemption once the system is operating and fully permitted
Standing monthly charge:about $1 a month for customers connecting under NEM 2.0, included in our payback figures.
Your utility decides payback
Is solar worth it in Ashburn? Start with your utility
Dominion Energy Virginia and NOVEC split Ashburn street by street. We read yours off your bill first.
Some addresses
NOVEC
- Average home rate (2024)
- 11.57¢/kWh
- Paid for exported solar
- Set by the co-op; we confirm it per account
- Net-metered home solar, utility-wide
- 3,602
For comparison: Virginia average 14.41¢ · U.S. average 16.48¢. Virginia had 69,553 net-metered home solar systems at the end of 2024.
Rates: US EIA Form EIA-861, 2024 averages incl. fixed charges, not tariffs. Export terms as of August 2026.
Ashburn sun, month by month
Is solar worth it in Ashburn? What the panels make
About 11,600 kWh a year from a south-facing roof with no shade. July is the strongest month at about 1,226 kWh and December the weakest at about 593 kWh.
Your roof will differ. Ashburn is master-planned and largely open, with thousands of near-identical modern roofs.
Estimate: NASA POWER sun data for Ashburn, PVWatts model, south-facing, no shade.
Our work
Real systems our crews have installed
Our own job photos, not stock or renders. Inland Mid-Atlantic.
ResidentialClean rooftop layoutBlack-framed panels
ResidentialMulti-facet metal roofWooded aerial view
ResidentialFull black-on-blackPoolside single-story home
ResidentialStanding-seam metal roofLakeside multi-facet install
ResidentialDetached garage arrayFarmhouse-style home
ResidentialShingle rooftop arrayBackyard-facing slope
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Free assessment · Ashburn, VA
Get a straight answer for your Ashburn roof
We read your bill, confirm your Dominion Energy Virginia export terms, and tell you what your roof in Loudoun County will actually carry, and say so if it will not pay.
- Most addresses here are on Dominion Energy Virginia, but NOVEC serves some Loudoun County addresses. We confirm yours from your bill before we quote anything
- A building permit and a separate electrical permit from Loudoun County, or from the town where the address sits inside one: we pull it and manage the inspections
- Loudoun County has adopted a solar equipment tax exemption, and the terms are worth knowing before you apply: the amount and duration are tied to the system’s nameplate capacity in DC watts, the equipment must be certified by the county as used primarily for collecting or generating energy, and the county will not process an application until the system is operating and has passed all required permits.
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Ashburn worth-it FAQ
The questions people actually ask us
Is solar worth it in Ashburn, VA in 2026?
For some Ashburn homes, yes. A 9.5 kW system here costs about $27,550 and makes about 11,600 kWh a year, worth roughly $135 a month of Dominion Energy Virginia power at its average rate. Mature hardwood shades your best roof planes for much of the day, which is common in the older parts of the county.
Did solar get worse in Ashburn after 2025?
Yes. The 30% federal homeowner credit ended on December 31, 2025. Virginia still credits exported power one-for-one at retail against your annual usage; the State Corporation Commission preserved that for Dominion Energy Virginia customers in its 30 April 2026 NEM 2.0 ruling.
What electricity bill makes solar worth considering in Ashburn?
A 9.5 kW system in Ashburn offsets roughly $135 a month of Dominion Energy Virginia power at its 14.1¢ average rate, if you use it all at home. A bill well under that leaves too little to offset; a bill above it, with daytime use, is worth modelling properly.
Is solar worth it in Ashburn on Dominion Energy?
Virginia still credits exported power one-for-one at retail against your annual usage; the State Corporation Commission preserved that for Dominion Energy Virginia customers in its 30 April 2026 NEM 2.0 ruling. Dominion Energy households paid about 14.1¢ per kWh on average in 2024. The more of your 11,600 kWh a year you use at home, the better it pays.
Is solar worth it in Ashburn if my roof is old?
The median Ashburn home was built in 1999, so many roofs are reaching their second half. We check remaining roof life before we design. Doing the roof first, or both together, avoids paying to remove and reinstall the panels later.
Is solar worth it in Ashburn for a 9.5 kW system?
It costs about $27,550 and makes about 11,600 kWh a year here unshaded. Dominion Energy households paid about 14.1¢ per kWh on average in 2024.
Free, no-pressure assessment
Get a straight answer for your Ashburn home
We will confirm your utility, read your real usage, measure your shade and check your roof, then tell you honestly whether solar is worth it at your address. Including if the answer is no.
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