Solar Panel Installation Midvale: every fee, out in the open
★★★★★ 5.0 on 54 Google reviewsMidvale doesn't charge solar a flat fee. Its permit is figured from the value of the system, then a plan check, an electrical fee and a small surcharge are stacked on top. We'll show you that math line by line, along with the one new charge Midvale homeowners will start seeing on their power bill in 2027.
What does solar cost in Midvale, Utah?
Solar panel installation Midvale homeowners get in 2026 averages about $2.35 per watt in Utah, so an 8 kW system runs near $18,800. Midvale's permit fees are based on that price: about $384 for an 8 kW job once the plan check, electrical fee and surcharge are added. Rocky Mountain Power charges $60 to interconnect. For the bigger picture, see our Salt Lake County solar installer page.
Midvale is Rocky Mountain Power territory, so net billing export credits and the Wattsmart battery incentive apply. Midvale also joined the Community Clean Energy Program in June 2026, which adds a $4 monthly line to most residential bills from 2027 unless you opt out. Solar owners on export-credit plans are included.
Build Your Midvale Solar Permit Fees, Line by Line
Pick a system size and a price per watt. The builder applies Midvale's 2027 fee schedule to the system's value, adds Rocky Mountain Power's interconnection fee, and stacks every charge so you can see where each dollar goes.
- Building permit fee $224.70
- Plan check (65% of building fee) $146.06
- Electrical fee (5%) $11.24
- Surcharge (1% of building + electrical) $2.36
- Rocky Mountain Power Level 1 interconnection $60.00
How we calculate it: Midvale's FY2027 schedule charges $48 plus $9.30 per $1,000 of valuation (or fraction) up to $100,000, then a 65% plan check, a 5% electrical fee and a 1% surcharge. We apply that to the installed price; Midvale's Building & Safety staff set the final figure when they review your application.
Get a Midvale Solar Quote With Every Fee Listed
Send a recent Rocky Mountain Power bill and your address. Our form now accepts photos too, so attach your electrical panel with the door open and a shot of the roof from the street. Your quote will list the system, the city fees and the utility fee as separate lines. Searching for solar panel repair near me? We service existing systems too, even ones we didn't install.
- Permit, plan check and interconnection included
- Sized from 12 months of your usage
- Licensed electricians, our own crew
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Solar Panel Installation Midvale Fees by System Size
Because Midvale bases its fee on value, a bigger system pays a little more, but even a 12 kW job stays under about $550 in city fees.
| System | Value at $2.35/W | Building fee | Plan check | Electrical + surcharge | Midvale total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 kW | $11,750 | $159.60 | $103.74 | $9.66 | ~$273 |
| 8 kW | $18,800 | $224.70 | $146.06 | $13.60 | ~$384 |
| 10 kW | $23,500 | $271.20 | $176.28 | $16.41 | ~$464 |
| 12 kW | $28,200 | $317.70 | $206.51 | $19.23 | ~$543 |
Projects under $100,000 owe no pre-plan check deposit, which covers almost every home system. Three newer charges are worth knowing: the September 2026 amendment set a $65 fee for an unready re-inspection, $130 for an after-hours inspection and $130 to reinstate an expired permit. A tidy install and a booked inspection keep all three off your bill.
“Not the cheapest but not even close to some other quotes I got.”
Fees are a small slice of the total. The system itself is where quotes differ most, so compare price per watt and what each bid includes. See solar panel cost Utah 2026 and Midvale's own fee schedule page.
How a Midvale Solar Permit Moves Through the Online Portal
Midvale takes building permit applications online only, and solar has its own permit type in the form. Here's the path from submission to final inspection.
- Choose "Solar"Pick the permit type and say a licensed contractor is doing the work.
- Upload plansSite plan, one-line diagram, spec sheets and roof letter, each file under 4 MB.
- Verify contractorsEvery trade contractor goes on the Contractor Verification Form.
- Pay and reviewFees follow the valuation table; plan check is part of the bill.
- Request inspectionInspections are booked online once the work is ready.
Full plan sets and photo-heavy spec sheets can easily run past that 4 MB limit. We compress and split files before uploading, and if a file still won't fit, the city's page says to email it to the building permit inbox instead. After the city's final inspection, Rocky Mountain Power completes its review before the system can be switched on. Questions about the code side go to Midvale's Building & Safety division; you can check our license on the Utah DOPL lookup.
What Happens on a Midvale Solar Install Day
Once Midvale issues the permit, the work on your home usually takes one to two days. Here's the order it runs in.
| When | On the roof | On the ground |
|---|---|---|
| Morning, day one | Layout marked, flashed attachments set into the rafters, rails mounted | Power stays on; we tell you before any shutoff |
| Afternoon, day one | Panels and module electronics installed and bonded | Conduit run down the wall to the disconnect |
| Day two, if needed | Rapid-shutdown checks and labels at every required spot | Breaker landed in your panel, brief power interruption, system tested |
| After the crew leaves | Photos taken of the hidden work for the inspection | Midvale's inspection booked online; system stays off until approval |
You don't need to stay home all day. We'll want access to the electrical panel and the side yard, and a heads-up about pets, sprinklers and locked gates. If anything on the roof surprises us, like soft decking or a cracked vent boot, we stop, photograph it and call you before going further. Once the city signs off and Rocky Mountain Power finishes its review, we walk you through the monitoring app so you can watch production from the first sunny morning.
Midvale's $4 Clean Energy Charge and Your Rooftop Solar
On June 2, 2026, Midvale was the last of 16 Utah communities to adopt the program, which aims to make participating customers' electricity net-100% renewable by 2030.
- Nov–Dec 2026Rocky Mountain Power mails and emails notices
- Jan 1, 2027$4 a month starts for enrolled homes
- May 1, 2027Last day to cancel without a fee
- After that$30 one-time fee to leave
Here's the part that matters for solar owners. Midvale's ordinance excludes homes on Rocky Mountain Power's old Schedule 135 net metering, but includes rooftop solar customers on Schedules 136 and 137, which is where every new system lands. So a Midvale home that installs solar this year will still be enrolled by default. You can meet our licensed Sandy, UT electricians before anyone comes to your home.
The two aren't in competition. The program buys renewable energy for the grid as a whole for a flat fee; rooftop solar cuts the kilowatt-hours you buy at all. Some owners keep both, some opt out once their panels are running. Eligible low-income customers on Rocky Mountain Power's Home Electric Lifeline Program can have the fee waived. Details are on Rocky Mountain Power's Community Clean Energy Program page, and our Millcreek solar page covers how the program started.
A 19-Panel Add-On and Battery Just North in Murray
This homeowner already had solar and wanted more of it, plus backup. We added panels and a battery to the existing system.
- Location
- Murray, UT, bordering Midvale
- Job type
- Add-on to an existing solar system
- Panels added
- 19
- Storage
- 16 kWh PointGuard battery
- Why it matters
- We add on to systems other companies installed
Murray runs its own city power company; Midvale homes are on Rocky Mountain Power, so the paperwork differs, but the add-on work itself is the same.
Midvale Solar Panels Plus an EV Charger, Battery or Panel Upgrade
Many Midvale solar projects grow by one more item. Bundling them means one site visit and one set of plans.
| Add-on | Why add it with solar | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| EV charger | Daytime charging uses solar directly instead of exporting it for about 4 to 5 cents | Needs a 240-volt circuit and panel space |
| Home battery | Stores midday surplus for the evening and powers essentials in an outage | Wattsmart pays $1,000, or $2,000 for a qualifying battery of 10 kW or more |
| Panel upgrade | Makes room for the solar breaker under the code's back-feed limits | Best done before the array goes up |
Read more on EV charger installation cost, the Wattsmart battery rebate and electrical panel upgrades.
What Midvale Solar Panels Earn Back Each Month
Fees are a one-time cost. The payback comes from your Rocky Mountain Power bill, and it works in two different ways.
| Where your solar goes | What it's worth (2026) | How to get more of it |
|---|---|---|
| Used in the house as it's made | Avoids 8.7020¢ to 12.5263¢ per kWh, depending on season and tier | Run laundry, dishwashers, pool pumps and EV charging in daylight |
| Sent back to the grid | Schedule 137 credit of 4.855¢ in summer, 4.033¢ the rest of the year | A battery can store it for evening use instead |
| Monthly customer charge | $12 stays on the bill | No way around it; it's the cost of staying connected |
For a typical Midvale home, PVWatts runs for neighboring valley cities point to roughly 1,530 to 1,540 kilowatt-hours a year from each kilowatt of panels facing south. An 8 kW system therefore makes around 12,300 kWh a year. How much of that you use directly, rather than export, decides most of your savings, which is why our quotes state the self-use share they assume instead of hiding it. EnergySage puts a typical Utah payback at about 22.6 years in 2026, and homes with daytime loads or a battery do better than that. The federal 30% credit for purchased home systems is no longer available, having ended with 2025. If you're still deciding, see how to switch to solar and what to look for in a solar contract.
Five Red Flags in a Solar Panel Installation Midvale Quote
Most quotes look tidy on the surface. These are the gaps we see when homeowners bring other bids to us for a second look.
- City and utility fees "included" with no amounts shown, so you can't tell if they really are
- A savings figure with no self-use assumption behind it
- No mention of your electrical panel, even though the site visit never opened it
- An installer whose electrical license isn't the one going on the Midvale permit
- A battery priced without the Wattsmart incentive, or with an incentive the battery doesn't qualify for
If a bid has one of these, it isn't necessarily bad; ask for the missing piece in writing. A good solar panel installation Midvale homeowners feel confident about answers every one of these before the deposit.
Your Midvale, Utah Solar Team, Just Down the Road
Our Sandy shop sits just south of Midvale. Jason Grimes, our DOPL licensed Master Electrician, checks every Midvale design before it's uploaded, and Tyler Gordon, owner and operator, backs the work with a 10-year workmanship warranty and a 5-year warranty on roof penetrations. The electricians on your roof are ours.
When you compare bids, line them up the same way the fee builder does: system price, city fees, utility fee, and anything extra like a panel upgrade. A solar panel installation Midvale homeowners can trust shows each of those as its own number. For other electrical work, our Midvale electrician page has the details, and nearby solar pages cover Murray, Sandy and Cottonwood Heights.
In Our Customers' Words
5.0 stars across 54 Google reviews. Here are six of them.
“Great customer service! Very helpful and responsive”
“They are quick, responsive, and have a great team.”
“Super transparent. Clean work”
“Justin F arrived on time, completed the work on schedule and the price was fair.”
“Great to work with.”
“He has a personal touch and is easy to trust.”
Rooftops, Roof Lines and Real Wiring
Tap any photo to enlarge it. More on solar panel installation Utah and our reviews page.
Request a Solar Panel Installation Midvale Quote
Fill in your address, then attach what you can straight from your phone. Rebecca confirms within one business day, and Christian and Jason Grimes follow with a written, flat-rate plan: system size, expected production, Midvale's fees and Rocky Mountain Power's fee, each on its own line.
- Latest power bill
- Electrical panel, door open
- Roof from the street
- Meter and side yard
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Midvale Solar FAQ
How much is a solar permit in Midvale, Utah?
It depends on system value. Using Midvale's 2027 schedule, an 8 kW system priced at $18,800 comes to about $384 including the plan check, electrical fee and surcharge.
How do I apply for a solar permit in Midvale?
Through the city's online Building Permit Application, choosing the solar permit type and uploading plans in files of 4 MB or less. We handle it for our customers.
Will Midvale's $4 clean energy charge apply if I have solar?
Yes, if your system is on Rocky Mountain Power's Schedule 136 or 137, unless you opt out. Only older Schedule 135 net metering customers are excluded.
When does the Community Clean Energy charge start?
Billing begins January 1, 2027. You can cancel without a fee before May 1, 2027; after that there's a $30 fee to leave.
How much does solar cost in Midvale, UT?
About $2.35 per watt on average in Utah in 2026, roughly $18,800 for 8 kW, plus around $444 in city and utility fees.
Who provides electricity in Midvale?
Rocky Mountain Power, so its net billing export credits, $60 interconnection fee and Wattsmart battery incentive apply.
Can I add an EV charger with solar in Midvale?
Yes. Adding it during the solar project lets us plan panel space once, and daytime charging uses your own solar.
Can I send photos with my request?
Yes. The form takes photo uploads, so attach your bill, electrical panel and roof.
How do I get a Midvale solar quote?
Call +1 (801) 928-7219 or use the form on this page. We confirm within one business day.
See your Midvale numbers before you commit
One bill and a couple of photos get you a written plan with every fee on its own line.
