The crew behind the solar on your roof
We design, permit, install and service solar systems for homes and buildings around Washington, DC. This page explains how a job runs, where we work from and who writes the guides on this site.
Answered 24/7 from our Washington, DC service office
- Service office
- 15th St NW, Washington, DC
- Head office
- Mount Laurel Township, NJ
- Phone line
- Answered 24/7
What we do
Solar, storage and charging, start to finish
Renewing Energy installs rooftop and ground solar, home and commercial batteries, EV chargers and the electrical work behind them. We also repair and maintain systems, including ones another company built, and handle the permits, Pepco paperwork and SREC registration that DC solar depends on.
Most of our work is inside the District, on rowhouse flat roofs, pitched roofs and historic blocks, with jobs in nearby Maryland and Northern Virginia as well.
Our process
How a job runs, from the first call to cleanup
The same order on every job, whether it is a new array or a repair.
- 1
You call
Any hour. We ask about the roof, the bills and anything that is not working.
- 2
Site visit
Roof, structure, shade and the electrical panel, checked in person.
- 3
Design and price
A layout, the equipment, a production estimate and a written price.
- 4
Paperwork
Permits, historic review where needed, and the Pepco application.
- 5
Installation
Racking, panels, inverters and any battery, then inspection.
- 6
Power on and after
Permission to operate, SREC registration, monitoring and service.
Where we work from
Two offices, one phone line answered 24/7.
Service office
1013 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005
Installs, repairs and inspections across DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia are run from here.
Head office
3184 Atrium Way, Mount Laurel Township, NJ 08054
Our head office. The DC region is handled from the 15th St NW service office.
Who writes our guides
The guides on this site are written by Truman Rountree, our solar and storage guides editor. He writes from the questions our crews answer on DC roofs, and every figure in a guide links to the source it came from.
The guides are general information about solar in the District, not quotes or tax advice. For your own house, a site visit is where the real numbers come from.
What we will and will not tell you
We will tell you when a roof needs replacing before panels go on, when shade makes solar a poor fit, and when a battery will not pay for itself. We would rather lose a sale than install a system that disappoints.
We will not quote prices before seeing the roof, and we will not promise certificate income: SREC prices move, and every estimate we give is a planning range.
Day or night
Talk to the crew
Call any hour with a question about your roof, your system or a quote you already have.