Who permits the work
Gaithersburg runs its own permitting for properties inside the city limits — a separate submission and separate inspectors from Montgomery County DPS. A Gaithersburg mailing address does not always mean you are inside the city, and which side of that line you are on decides where the permit goes. We confirm it before filing.
For a rooftop array that generally means two permits rather than one: a building permit for anything fastened to the roof
structure, and a separate electrical permit for everything downstream of it, pulled by the licensed electrician on the job. We
sequence both and pull the building permit under our licence — you file nothing yourself.
What Gaithersburg homes are actually built like
Gaithersburg spans 1960s–1980s subdivisions in the older sections and heavy 1990s–2000s townhome and single-family development further out.
For solar that matters in two specific places: the age and condition of the roof covering, which decides whether the array
goes on now or after a replacement, and the capacity of the electrical service, which a licensed electrician confirms before
anything is designed.
What we will not tell you about your Gaithersburg project
No production figure, no payback year, no incentive percentage and no equipment warranty term. Those depend on your roof,
your bills, your tax position and programmes that change — and a number published before anyone has measured your roof is
a guess. Your specialist puts the real ones in writing after the free assessment, and tells you to confirm anything
tax-related with your own tax adviser.
Permit authority and code requirements are summarized for general guidance and can change; we confirm the current requirements for your specific parcel before work begins. Nothing on this page is tax advice.