Memphis and Shelby County
Solar services in Memphis, TN
Three services, chosen by what actually pays in a city whose utility does not buy power back. Two obvious ones are missing on purpose, and this page says which and why.
What is worth doing to a solar system in Memphis is decided by one rule that most of the
country does not have. MLGW does not offer net metering. It holds an all-requirements
contract with TVA and is prohibited from buying electricity from any other source
,
so anything a system generates beyond what the building is using at that moment
flows to the MLGW grid without financial benefit
(MLGW, checked 2026-08-17).
Read down from that and the list of services worth having gets short and specific. Storage matters more here than in a net-metered state, because it is the only way surplus output keeps any value. Repair matters more than it looks, because a system that has stopped producing still carries the standing charge that comes with generating. And commercial roofs are the strongest case in the city, because a building that is open all day consumes a much larger share of its own output than a house does.
Two services are missing, and neither is an oversight. There is no panel cleaning page, because cleaning is a small job in a different trade and putting it on a solar site pulls in calls a solar contractor does not want. And there is no separate installation page: new installation is what this whole site is about, so it lives on solar installation in Memphis, TN rather than in a subfolder competing with it.
Battery storageStorage is what turns output into money where exported power earns nothingSolar battery installation in Memphis, TN
Panel repairA system that stopped producing, or never produced what it was sized forSolar panel repair in Memphis, TN
Commercial solarWarehouse, distribution, office and flat membrane roofs across Shelby CountyCommercial solar installation in Memphis, TN
Before any of it, the rules
Both pages below are the reason the services above are the ones on this site. Neither sells anything.
Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the building and what it is doing now. If the answer is that none of this is worth doing on your roof, that is the answer you will get.