Solar Panel Installation in Borough Park, Brooklyn

Borough Park is the neighborhood where we have done the most work in New York City. More Solar Pro rooftop solar permits have been issued here than in any other NYC neighborhood – more than in Park Slope, Bay Ridge and Williamsburg combined. That is not a marketing line; DOB permit records are public. It means we already know the housing stock, the Con Edison service quirks, and what the roofs here can and cannot carry.

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Why Borough Park roofs suit solar better than most of Brooklyn

Two things make this neighborhood unusually good, and they are the reason our permit count here is what it is.

The houses are bigger. Borough Park is dominated by attached and semi-detached brick homes, wide two- and three-family houses, and a large stock of purpose-built multi-family buildings. Compared with a 20-foot Park Slope row house, a typical Borough Park roof gives noticeably more usable area once fire-code setbacks are subtracted. Systems here commonly land in the 8 to 14 kW range rather than 4 to 8.

The electric bills are bigger too. Large households, multi-generational living, and two- and three-family configurations push annual consumption well above the Brooklyn average. Solar economics scale with the bill you are offsetting, so the same roof produces a shorter payback here than it would on a smaller household in the same borough.

There is no historic district covering Borough Park, so there is no Landmarks review to navigate – unlike Park Slope or Bed-Stuy. Permitting is the standard DOB and Con Edison path, which is faster.

The two-family and three-family metering question

This is the single most common thing that complicates a Borough Park job, and it is worth understanding before you get quotes.

If your house has more than one Con Edison meter – one per unit, plus often a house meter for hallway and boiler loads – a single rooftop array cannot simply feed all of them. Net metering credits the meter the system is interconnected to. Put the array on the wrong meter and you will overproduce against a small load while the large load keeps paying full price.

The options, and we will tell you which applies to your building:

  • Interconnect to the highest-consumption meter – simplest, and usually right when one unit dominates usage
  • Combine meters where the configuration and Con Edison rules permit it
  • Two separate arrays on separate meters when the roof is large enough to justify it

Getting this wrong is the most expensive mistake available on a multi-family Brooklyn roof, and it is not visible on a satellite-image quote.

What Borough Park homeowners can claim

  • NYC property tax abatement – 30% of eligible system cost, at 7.5% per year over four years against your property tax bill
  • NYS solar equipment credit – 25% of installed cost, capped at $5,000
  • NYSERDA NY-Sun – per-watt incentive, paid through us and already in your price
  • Con Edison net metering – credit for exported power
  • $0-down and prepaid lease – the financing company owns the system, claims the business-side federal credit, and passes it through as a lower payment

The 30% federal residential credit ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025, so buying outright no longer earns a federal credit. On a larger Borough Park system the prepaid lease usually produces the better number now – the bigger the system, the more federal value there is to pass through.

Note that the property tax abatement follows the building, not the equipment owner, so it still applies on a leased system.

Roof condition comes first

Much of Borough Park’s housing stock is pre-war brick with flat roofs that have been resurfaced more than once. Roofing is part of what we take on – we contract the roof work through our roofing partner and manage it alongside the solar, and on a flat roof with under ten years of membrane life left we will tell you to do the roof first – even though it delays the solar work and the invoice. Putting a 25-year array on a 6-year roof means paying to remove and reinstall it.

Where the roof is sound, we use ballasted racking – weight rather than penetrations – so the membrane is never punctured and the array lifts off cleanly for future roof work.

Equipment is tier-one: Qcells, Enphase, Trina Solar, Maxeon, SEG Solar and Axitec, backed by a 30-year warranty through Solar Insure covering panels, inverters, racking and labor, with real-time monitoring.

Why Borough Park homeowners use Solar Pro

  • More completed rooftop solar permits in Borough Park than in any other NYC neighborhood
  • Brooklyn-based – our office is in Bed-Stuy
  • Hundreds of solar installations across New York City
  • 5.0-star rated with 95 verified Google reviews
  • Licensed & insured, NABCEP-certified, BBB A+ accredited
  • In-house team – design, DOB permitting, Con Edison interconnection and installation

Book Your Free Borough Park Solar Consultation – (718) 962-7699

Borough Park solar questions

How big a system fits on a Borough Park house?
Most land between 8 and 14 kW – larger than the Brooklyn average, because the roofs and the loads are both bigger. We measure after subtracting fire-code access paths rather than quoting off a satellite image.

I have three meters. Can one system cover the whole house?
Not automatically. Net metering credits the meter you interconnect to. We look at twelve months of usage on every meter before designing, and recommend either a single interconnection to the dominant meter, combining meters, or two arrays.

Is there Landmarks review in Borough Park?
No. There is no historic district here, so it is the standard DOB and Con Edison process – faster than a landmarked neighborhood.

Does solar work on a flat roof?
Yes, and flat is generally easier. Ballasted racking sits on the roof under its own weight, panels are tilted to the optimal angle rather than following a roof pitch, and nothing penetrates the membrane.

Get a free Borough Park solar assessment

We will look at your roof, twelve months of Con Edison usage on every meter at the property, and your property tax bill, then tell you what the roof would realistically produce and what it would actually cost – including whether a prepaid lease beats buying outright. If your roof needs replacing first, or if it is a poor candidate, we will say so.

Request your free Borough Park solar assessment – or call (718) 962-7699.

The multi-meter question above comes up just as often on the big two- and three-family houses in Flatbush and East Flatbush. If your roof is pitched rather than flat, the attachment detail matters more than the metering – see Kew Gardens Hills.

Serving all of Brooklyn – see our Brooklyn solar page or every Brooklyn neighborhood we cover.

Already have solar? We also service systems we did not install – repair and diagnostics, panel removal and reinstallation for roof work, and systems whose original installer has closed.