HomeSolar Panel Installation in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
Bed-Stuy is our home block. Solar Pro’s office sits at 139 Stuyvesant Ave, right in the middle of the neighborhood we’ve been wiring for solar for years. When we say local, we mean our crew parks on your street. Bedford-Stuyvesant has one of the largest concentrations of owner-occupied brownstones and row houses anywhere in New York City, and those buildings quietly happen to be excellent solar hosts. If your Con Edison bill keeps climbing, this is one of the smartest moves a Bed-Stuy homeowner can make.
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Why Bed-Stuy homes are great for solar
The classic Bed-Stuy brownstone and limestone row house has a flat or very low-slope rear roof, usually unobstructed and rarely shaded once you’re above the cornice line. That’s close to ideal. We mount these roofs with ballasted racking, which sits on weighted trays instead of puncturing your membrane, so the roof stays watertight and the warranty stays intact. On a typical 20-by-45-foot row-house roof there is comfortably room for a system in the 5 to 9 kW range – often enough to erase the majority of a household’s annual electric usage.
Many Bed-Stuy houses are also two- and three-family, with an owner upstairs and tenants below. We design multi-meter systems for exactly this situation and handle the separate Con Edison interconnection paperwork for each unit, so you’re not left refereeing the utility.
Landmarked blocks: Stuyvesant Heights and LPC approval
Parts of Bed-Stuy fall inside the Stuyvesant Heights, Bedford, and Bedford Historic Districts, which means the Landmarks Preservation Commission has a say in what goes on your roof. This is the single biggest thing that trips up homeowners here – and it is very solvable. In practice, LPC approves rooftop solar when the array is set back from the front facade and is not visible from the street below. We survey the sightlines first, lay the system out to stay behind the cornice, and prepare the LPC filing along with your DOB permits. If your block is landmarked, you can still go solar. See our solar for historic and landmarked homes page for how we handle it.
Incentives for Bed-Stuy homeowners
- $0-down lease & prepaid-lease options – go solar with no money upfront; the financier claims the available tax credits and passes the savings through to your rate
- NYC Property Tax Abatement – a credit worth up to 30% of your solar cost applied against your NYC property taxes
- NYSERDA NY-Sun – we check current block availability for your address, including the income-eligible Affordable Solar adders
- Con Edison net metering – earn bill credit for every kilowatt-hour you send back to the grid
Note that the 30% federal residential solar tax credit expired at the end of 2025. That’s exactly why our lease and prepaid-lease options matter now – they’re structured so the tax benefit still reaches you through a lower rate. Solar Pro handles the paperwork so you capture every incentive you actually qualify for.
Solar and roofing under one roof
Brownstone roofs are old. Before a single panel goes up we inspect the membrane, the parapet, and the drainage, and tell you honestly whether it needs work first. Because we’re a roofing company too, we can do that work ourselves – and years from now, if the roof needs replacing, we remove and reinstall your array in-house. No two contractors pointing at each other. We install tier-one equipment from Qcells, Enphase, Trina Solar, Maxeon, SEG Solar, and Axitec, backed by a 25-year warranty on panels and workmanship, plus real-time production monitoring.
Why Bed-Stuy chooses Solar Pro
- Headquartered in Bed-Stuy at 139 Stuyvesant Ave, Brooklyn NY 11221
- 5.0-star rated with 90+ verified Google reviews
- Licensed & insured, NABCEP-certified, BBB A+ accredited
- In-house team – design, LPC and DOB permitting, and installation start to finish
Book Your Free Bed-Stuy Solar Consultation – (718) 962-7699
Bed-Stuy solar FAQs
My block is landmarked. Can I still install solar?
Almost always yes. LPC generally approves arrays that are set back from the front of the building and not visible from the sidewalk across the street. We handle the sightline survey and the filing for you.
I own a three-family. Can solar cover the tenant meters too?
Yes. We design multi-meter systems and file separate Con Edison interconnections per unit, whether you want to offset only your own meter or all of them.
How much does solar cost in Bed-Stuy?
Most row houses here need a 5 to 9 kW system. With $0-down lease and prepaid-lease options, the NYC property-tax abatement, and net metering, many homeowners pay nothing upfront and save more each month than their payment.
Serving all of Brooklyn – see our Brooklyn solar page or every Brooklyn neighborhood we cover. Nearby: Bushwick, Clinton Hill & Fort Greene, Crown Heights.