Solar permit data is sold as per-county subscriptions (Construction Monitor, from $31 a month for Alabama solar permits as of October 2026), as API records (PermitStack, Shovels), and by Scout Data as calling files built from 4,586,606 residential solar permits, with the owner’s mobile matched to the deed. Which one fits depends on whether you want to study the solar market or call the people in it.
This page is for the second group: outbound solar floors and the battery, service and roofing teams that sell to homes with panels. It covers what a solar permit records, the three lists a call center can build from it, and who sells the permits.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product. We sell permit-built homeowner files and publish the free state pages linked below. Read our rows as a maker’s pitch.
What a solar permit tells a seller
A residential solar permit is the county’s record that a specific home committed to a specific system. Fields vary by jurisdiction, but the ones a sales floor uses are these.
- Issue date and status. When the system went in, or was meant to. A 2015 install is a different call from a 2025 one, and a permit that expired tells you the project stalled.
- The installer. The contractor that pulled the permit. This is how you find customers of a company that is no longer answering its phone.
- System size. Where recorded, the size of the array, which shapes a battery or expansion pitch.
- Battery on the permit. Many solar permits record whether storage was installed with the panels. A home with panels and no battery is the plainest battery lead there is; how often the two now go together is in solar battery attachment rates.
- Declared value. The national median declared valuation on residential solar permits since January 2024 is $23,783, a floor on real contract prices.
What the permit does not carry is a way to reach the homeowner. The owner on title comes from the deed, and the phone has to be matched to that owner. That gap is the main difference between the sellers below.
Fewer new installs, a bigger installed base
Scout Data’s permit database tracks residential solar permitting peaking at 574,306 permits in 2023, then falling to 414,539 in 2024 and 382,393 in 2025. California issued 144,697 in the past 12 months against 33,375 in Florida. Year-by-year, state and county tables are in solar permit statistics.
For a call center the trend changes which list is worth buying. New permits are a shrinking feed, mostly of homes that already chose an installer. The 4,586,606 residential solar permits already on record are a growing base of owners who will need a battery, a repair, a new roof under their panels or a new service company. Where those homes are is in homes with solar by state.
Three calling lists built from solar permits
- Existing solar owners, for battery and service. Homes with an installed system, filtered by permit year, system size and whether a battery is on the permit. The opener names the system the homeowner already owns.
- Permits that never got installed. Across 2,836,257 single-family homes with a solar permit and an evaluated roof, 595,060 (21.0%) have no array visible today. A permit with no panels can mean a cancelled contract, a financing fall-through or an abandoned job; it is a homeowner who wanted solar and does not have it. Method and state rates are in solar permits that never got installed.
- Customers of installers that went under. Scout Data holds 98,000+ permits pulled by Freedom Forever, which filed for Chapter 11 in April 2026, alongside permits from other installers on the bankrupt solar installer list. These owners have panels and no one to call about them.
None of the three can be produced from a new-permit feed alone. The first needs the full history, the second needs the roof image matched to the record, and the third needs the installer field joined to a list of installers that have closed.
Who sells solar permit data
Prices were read from each vendor’s own site on October 2, 2026.
| Source | Format | Solar coverage | Starting price (Oct 2, 2026) | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction Monitor | Monthly subscription per county or city | AL, CA, FL, GA and TX only | $31/month (Alabama) to $1,281/month (San Diego County) per jurisdiction; no trial | A contractor working a few counties in those states |
| PermitStack (permit-stack.com) | Permit API, all permit types | Ask the vendor | Free tier; $29 to $499/month by daily request volume; owner mailing address from the $149 plan | A developer building a permit tool |
| Shovels | Permit records by API or export | Ask the vendor | 500 free credits a month; $599/month for 25,000 records | An analyst or product team |
| Scout Data state pages | Free counts by year, county, value and battery share | The largest solar states | Free | Sizing a market before you buy |
| Scout Data calling files | Weekly homeowner file: one owner-matched mobile per home, DNC-scrubbed | 4,586,606 residential solar permits across 1,154 counties | Free 1,000-record test, then one monthly rate; no per-record price | An outbound floor selling battery, service or roofing |
Prices are as publicly advertised on each vendor’s pricing page at the time of writing and change often. Confirm the current rate with the vendor before you buy, and with our team for Scout Data.
The first three sell the permit. To dial it, you still need the owner on title, a phone for that owner, a Do Not Call scrub and a way to stop calling the same homes twice. Scout Data delivers those with the row, replaces numbers your dialer flags as wrong or dead, and suppresses each weekly batch against everything already sent. On the last files we measured, 3.40% of 14,741 agent-tagged calls were wrong or dead numbers.
Check your county for free first
Before paying anyone, look up the market. The solar permits by state pages show permits by year since 2015, the busiest counties, declared project values and battery attach rates for each published state, from Scout Data’s permit database. If your territory shows a deep installed base and a thin new permit flow, the lists above will out-dial a feed of new permits. For how solar call centers buy the rest of their data, see solar call center leads.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I get solar permit data?
From county and city permit offices one at a time, or from a seller that has gathered them. Construction Monitor sells solar permit subscriptions per jurisdiction in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia and Texas, from $31 to $1,281 a month as of October 2026. PermitStack and Shovels sell permit records through an API. Scout Data publishes free solar permit counts by state and sells calling files built from 4,586,606 residential solar permits, with the owner’s mobile matched to the deed.
What information is on a residential solar permit?
The address, the issue date and status, the contractor that pulled it, and a description of the work. Many jurisdictions also record the system size, whether a battery is included, and a declared project value. The homeowner’s phone number is not on the permit; it has to be matched separately.
How many residential solar permits are issued each year?
In Scout Data’s permit database, residential solar permits peaked at 574,306 in 2023, then fell to 414,539 in 2024 and 382,393 in 2025. 347,293 were issued in the past 12 months. These count tracked jurisdictions only, so they are floors.
Can I buy a list of homes that got a solar permit but never installed panels?
Yes. Scout Data matches solar permits against rooftop imagery: of 2,836,257 single-family homes with a solar permit and an evaluated roof, 595,060 (21.0%) show no array today. Those homes can be delivered as a calling file with one owner-matched, DNC-scrubbed mobile per home, starting with a free 1,000-record test.