Commercial solar that pays for itself.
Turn your roof, lot, or land into an asset that cuts costs, hedges rising rates, and keeps your facility running — engineered since 1991.
Energy engineering
Installations
Commercial
Among our clients
Certified, accredited & independently vetted
Since 1991, we've engineered energy — not just installed panels.
Most solar companies are sales shops that sub out the engineering. We're the opposite — and it's exactly why we can make the financial case most installers can't. We design every system around your building, loads, and rate structure, not whatever's easiest to sell.
In-house engineering & designSized to your real usage, site, and utility tariff.
One accountable partnerAssessment, permitting, interconnection, install, and support — under one roof.
5,000+ installationsA real track record across the Northeast and nationwide, not a sales pitch.
Solar pays you twice.
Payoff 01
Once on your bill
Make your own power for 25+ years and stop buying it at next year's rate — money back every month.
Payoff 02
Once on your balance sheet
Every dollar you stop spending lifts your NOI — and gets multiplied into what the building is worth.
The math your competitors skip
Property Value = NOI ÷ Cap Rate
Your electric bill is an operating expense. Cut it, and your Net Operating Income rises by that amount — then gets multiplied into what your building is worth.
Added property value per $1/yr of energy saved (5–7% cap rate)
A realistic facility energy saving…
…in added property value, the day the system turns on
Federal, state, and utility incentives change over time and depend on your project and timing. We'll walk you through what's currently available and model your exact numbers — no guesswork.
See it for your building.
Two sliders. Watch both payoffs update live — the savings on your bill, and the lift on your balance sheet.
The rate used to value income property. Not sure? 6.5% is a fair default.
Assumes a well-sized system offsetting roughly 72% of usage on a building where the owner pays the electric bill. Savings shown are before system and financing costs. Figures are estimates for illustration only.
Once on your bill
≈ $1,080,000 over 25 years
Once on your balance sheet
added property value (NOI ÷ cap rate)
Estimates only — your real numbers depend on your roof, usage, and rate structure. We'll model them precisely, free.
Get my exact numbers →And it's not only about the money.
Resilience
Paired with storage, your critical operations stay on when the grid goes down.
Tenant & ESG appeal
A cleaner energy profile that supports lease-up, retention, and sustainability goals.
Future-proofed
EV- and storage-ready — built for where energy costs and codes are heading.
Built in-house
Designed around your building — not a catalog.
Solar is the start, not the finish.
Because we're an engineering firm, we take cost off your bill from every direction — and run it as one coordinated project, not five vendors.
Commercial Solar
On-site generation sized to your facility. The anchor of the whole strategy.
Battery Storage
Shave demand peaks and keep critical loads running through outages.
LED & Lighting
Often the fastest payback of any measure — energy, maintenance, and demand at once.
HVAC & Controls
High-efficiency systems and smart controls cut one of the largest loads in any building.
EV Charging
Future-proof the property and add an amenity tenants increasingly expect.
Roofing & Site
A solar roof starts with a sound roof. We handle what's underneath the array too.
Question to switched-on.
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Free assessment
We review your bills, usage, and site to see what's worth doing.
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Engineering & proposal
A system designed for your building, with modeled costs and payback.
- 3
Approvals
We handle permitting and the utility interconnection paperwork.
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Installation
Our team builds it — cleanly and on schedule.
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Support
Monitoring, local service and warranty support.
The questions businesses actually ask.
Is there still a federal tax credit for commercial solar?+−
Yes, with a deadline. A business solar project that starts construction after July 4, 2026 must be up and running by December 31, 2027 to claim the federal investment tax credit. Projects that started construction by July 4, 2026 aren't held to that date. Design, permits and utility approval take months, so we map your timeline in the first meeting. Your tax advisor should confirm what your business can claim.
What do you need from us to price a project?+−
Your last 12 months of utility bills and the roof or land you want to use. Fifteen-minute interval data from your utility sharpens the design. If your utility can't provide it, AEC Solar can install a meter to collect it.
How can a business pay for solar?+−
Cash, a loan or a lease. Our AEC Capital team lines up third-party lenders and approvals for you. AEC doesn't lend directly.
Will solar work on our roof?+−
We check the roof's age, structure and layout first. If the roof needs work, we plan for it before the panels go on. If it isn't a fit, ground mounts and carports are options.
Do you only work in New York?+−
No. AEC Solar installs for homes in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey, and takes on commercial projects nationwide.
See what solar could do for your facility.
A free commercial assessment is the fastest way to see real numbers for your building — no pressure, no inflated promises.
Get my free assessmentHonest numbers, engineered since 1991.