Agricultural solar for the land you work.
Farms, ranches, vineyards, and rural homesteads across the Inland Empire. We plan around the whole property — house, shop, wells, and outbuildings — so the system covers what actually runs.
Bring a bill, parcel/APN, and a rough load list — we'll tell you whether solar, hybrid, or off-grid fits.
Agricultural solar and battery storage for farms, ranches, vineyards, nurseries, dairies, and rural homesteads in the Inland Empire. SolarCCS plans ground-mount arrays, solar well pumps, barn and shop solar, and battery backup around the whole property's real loads — coordinated under one general contractor license (CSLB #983330) with a vetted trusted-subcontractor list, one warranty, and one point of contact.
Rural solar, by the numbers
Built for working land
Three decades across the Inland Empire, planning systems for the loads rural properties actually carry.
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Years building across the Inland Empire
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Rural property types we plan and design for
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Who we power
Working properties of every kind
From single outbuildings to full operations — the sizing changes, the approach doesn't.
One system, every load on the property
Rural solar is rarely just panels on a house. We plan around the whole property — house, shop, wells, and outbuildings — so the system covers what actually runs.
Ground-mount solar arrays
Use open land instead of roof. Sized for the property’s full load — house, shop, and outbuildings together.
Solar well & pump power
Run irrigation and stock pumps on solar instead of a meter run or generator.
Barn & shop solar
Dedicated arrays for workshops and equipment sheds, with backup for the loads that matter.
Battery & generator backup
Keep pumps, cold storage, and waterers running through outages and PSPS events.
EV & equipment charging
Charge trucks, UTVs, and electric equipment where the grid is thin or absent.
Ag incentive screening
Check eligibility for programs that may apply to agricultural solar — we coordinate, you confirm with your CPA.
Trade work — electrical, trenching, structural, well/pump, and generator integration — is coordinated through our GC license and a vetted, trusted-subcontractor list, all under one license and one warranty.
Why agricultural properties go solar
Rural land carries loads a city home doesn't — pumps, cold storage, shops, and outbuildings. Solar and storage cut operating costs, lock in energy independence, and add resilience where the grid is thin.
Federal credit · Section 48E
30%
The base federal investment tax credit on qualifying commercial solar and storage — with adders for domestic content, energy communities, and prevailing wage that can reach up to ~50% when all apply.
Eligibility and final amount depend on project specifics. SolarCCS screens eligibility and prepares documentation — confirm with your CPA.
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GC license. One warranty. Solar, trenching, structural, and electrical handled under one roof — Canyon Construction Services, CSLB #983330.
Lower operating costs
Offset the electric bill that runs your pumps, fans, cold storage, and shop equipment. A right-sized array targets the loads that actually drive the bill.
Energy independence
Generate and store your own power instead of buying every kilowatt-hour from the utility — especially valuable where lines are long or unreliable.
Resilience & backup
Battery-backed and hybrid designs keep well pumps, waterers, and cold storage running through outages and PSPS events — not just when the grid is up.
NEM 3.0 hedge
California's Net Billing Tariff pays far less for exports than the old net metering. Battery storage shifts your own use to higher-value hours — we model the real math, not a guess.
Bring a bill, parcel/APN, and a rough load list — we will tell you whether solar, hybrid, or off-grid fits.
Tell us what the land powers — wells, shops, cold storage, pumps. We'll map the loads and show the system that fits.
How we plan solar for each kind of working land
The equipment changes from property to property, but the method doesn't: walk the land, list every load, pull a year of utility history, and size the system to what actually runs. Here's how that plays out across the rural properties we serve in the Inland Empire.
Farms & ranches
Farms and ranches usually have a mix of house, shop, well, and irrigation loads spread across open land — a strong fit for a ground-mount array sized to the whole property rather than a single roof. We plan around irrigation pumps, outbuildings, and equipment charging, and size battery storage to keep water and cold storage running through outages. Because the loads are large and predictable, the payback math is often clearer than on a city home.
Typical loads
Best fit: Ground-mount hybrid
Vineyards & wineries
Vineyards and wineries run cold storage, processing equipment, and irrigation on a seasonal schedule that can pair well with solar production. A battery-backed hybrid system can shift processing and cold-storage loads into lower-cost hours and keep critical equipment online through outages. We model the seasonal demand so the array is sized to the crush and the storage, not just the tasting room.
Typical loads
Best fit: Battery-backed hybrid
Nurseries & orchards
Nurseries and orchards depend on pumps, fans, and climate control — loads that run hard during the hottest, sunniest parts of the year, exactly when solar produces most. That alignment is ideal for solar, but it also means battery storage matters for the early-morning and overnight runs when production is off. We size for the pump schedule and the shade structure, not a generic average.
Typical loads
Best fit: Solar + storage
Dairies & livestock
Dairies and livestock operations carry milking equipment, water heaters, waterers, and ventilation — loads that do not get to stop when the grid does. A hybrid system with battery backup keeps the operation running through outages and PSPS events, while solar offsets the everyday electric bill. We plan around the duty cycles that matter to animal welfare and food safety.
Typical loads
Best fit: Hybrid + backup
Ag shops & barns
Workshops, barns, and outbuildings are often on separate panels or meters, each with its own tools, compressors, and lighting. We can bring those loads under one solar and storage plan, coordinated with any trenching and structural work through the GC license — so one system covers the shop, the barn, and the house instead of three separate bills.
Typical loads
Best fit: One-system plan
Rural homesteads
Rural homesteads and large residential parcels sit between residential and agricultural: a big house, a shop, a well, maybe an EV and a pool, on land where the grid may be thin. We treat the whole parcel as the system — sizing for the house and outbuildings together, and adding battery backup where resilience or independence matters more than lowest upfront cost.
Typical loads
Best fit: Whole-parcel hybrid
Featured Install · Ranch-Scale Solar
Don Francisco’s Ranch — 60 kW NEM 2.0
A 60 kW grid-tied rooftop array on a working ranch property in Temecula — built around a ranch-scale property load under a grandfathered NEM 2.0 rate schedule. The favorable legacy export rate makes grid interconnection the most economical design for this usage profile, so the system runs grid-tied with no battery.
- System Size
- 60 kW
- Rate Schedule
- NEM 2.0
- Configuration
- Grid-Tied
How we deliver
From site walk to power on
One GC license, one warranty, one point of contact across every trade on the property.
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Site walk & load review
We walk the property, list every load — house, shop, wells, pumps — and pull a year of utility history.
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Layout, engineering & soils
Ground-mount siting, trenching and structural review, and a system sized to the real demand.
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Permits, interconnection & build
We coordinate permits and utility interconnection, then install — our crew plus vetted subcontractors under one GC license.
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PTO & documentation support
Permission to operate, commissioning walk-through, and an incentive support package to hand to your tax professional.
Incentives, permitting, and documentation
A few programs can materially change the math on an agricultural solar and storage project. We screen which ones your property may qualify for, then prepare a documentation support package to hand to your tax professional — we don't file credits or guarantee awards.
Section 48E credit
30% base, up to ~50%
The federal Clean Electricity Investment Credit applies to qualifying commercial solar and battery storage placed in service by for-profit and certain tax-exempt entities. It starts at a 30% base credit and can rise toward roughly 50% when domestic-content, energy-community, and prevailing-wage adders all apply.
↳Eligibility depends on entity type, property use, and bonus requirements. Confirm with your CPA.
USDA REAP
Grants paused for FY2026
The USDA Rural Energy for America Program offers grants and guaranteed loans to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems and efficiency improvements. Grant applications are currently paused for FY2026; guaranteed loans may still be accepted.
↳We check the current application window and prepare a support package — we do not file or guarantee an award.
California SGIP
Per-kWh battery rebate
The Self-Generation Incentive Program offers per-kWh rebates for battery storage, with higher rates for equity-resiliency customers in high-fire-threat areas. Rates and funding change as program steps fill.
↳Not every property or rate tier qualifies. We check current SGIP status and your eligibility during the assessment.
NEM 3.0 / Net Billing
Exports pay avoided-cost
Under California's Net Billing Tariff, exported solar is credited at an avoided-cost rate — roughly $0.04–$0.08 per kWh — rather than the near-retail rate NEM 2.0 customers received. Existing NEM 2.0 customers are generally grandfathered. Battery storage lets you use your own solar during higher-value hours instead of selling it cheap.
↳We model the real numbers for your property and rate schedule.
Permitting & interconnection
One GC, one point of contact
Every project needs local permits and utility interconnection, and rural parcels can add well, septic, soils, and access considerations. We coordinate permitting, interconnection, trenching, structural, and well/pump work through one GC license (CSLB #983330) and a vetted trusted-subcontractor list.
↳One warranty across the whole project, not a roster of separate trades.
Not sure what applies?
We screen eligibility against your property, ownership, and loads — then hand you a documented support package for your tax professional.
Incentive programs, rates, and funding change. SolarCCS does not file tax credits or guarantee eligibility — we screen, document, and coordinate.
Find your fit
Grid-tied, hybrid, or off-grid
The right choice depends on your grid, your loads, and how much independence you need. Most rural properties land on hybrid.
| Rural system comparison | Grid-tied ag solarLowest cost, offsets the bill | Hybrid + batteryPower for the loads that matter | Off-grid / microgridIndependence where the grid is thin |
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| What it powers | |||
| Whole-property load (house + shop + outbuildings) | Included | Included | Included |
| Wells & irrigation pumps | Not included | Included | Included |
| Runs through outages / PSPS | Not included | Included | Included |
| Cost & independence | |||
| Lowest upfront cost | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Most independence per dollar | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Full grid independence | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Best for | |||
| Offsetting a high bill | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Resilience for pumps & cold storage | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Remote parcels with weak grid | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Request a rural assessment | Request a rural assessment | See off-grid | |
Rural solar FAQ
Questions about agricultural solar
Ground-mount, pumps, NEM 3.0, REAP, Section 48E, SGIP, and sizing — the questions rural property owners ask us first.
Keep exploring
Your rural solar options
Resilience, incentives, financing, and honest load math — here's where to go next.
Where we work
Agricultural solar across the Inland Empire
SolarCCS is based in Riverside and builds agricultural and rural solar systems across the Inland Empire — Riverside and San Bernardino counties and into the Coachella Valley. That local footprint matters for rural work: we know the utilities (Riverside Public Utilities and Southern California Edison), the permitting offices, the ag zoning, and the realities of wells, septic, soils, and long utility runs that come with working land.
We serve farms, ranches, vineyards, nurseries, dairies, and rural homesteads in and around Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris, Corona, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley, Lake Elsinore, Hemet, San Jacinto, Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Banning, Beaumont, Calimesa, Yucaipa, Redlands, Highland, Loma Linda, Colton, San Bernardino, Ontario, Chino, Chino Hills, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, and out toward Palm Desert, Palm Springs, and the desert communities.
If your property is on a well, on acreage, or on a meter that keeps climbing, that’s exactly the kind of load profile we plan around. We’ll walk the property, list the real loads, and tell you honestly whether solar, hybrid, or off-grid is the right fit.
Plan your rural system
Bring a bill, your parcel number or APN, and a rough list of the loads you want to cover. We'll tell you whether solar, hybrid, or off-grid is the right fit — no pressure.
CSLB #983330 · Canyon Construction Services d.b.a. SolarCCS · Riverside, CA
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