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Commercial & Agricultural Solar in Bastrop & Fayette County, TX

Solar sized around barns, irrigation pumps, grain dryers, and the uneven power draw that comes with running a working property — not a standard house. Built for farms, ranches, and commercial buildings across Bastrop and Fayette County.

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Quick Check

What's Running on Your Property?

Big, uneven draw. Irrigation and well pumps pull power in bursts that a residential-sized system isn't built for. See Irrigation Pump Power Systems.

Coolers, feed, and water systems all add up. Sizing starts with what's actually running day to day. See Livestock Operation Power.

Seasonal but heavy. Grain dryers can pull more power in a few weeks than the rest of the property uses all year. See Grain Storage & Drying Power Systems.

Rooftop or ground-mount, depending on the building. See Commercial Rooftop & Ground-Mount Solar.

Worth planning for equipment that can't lose power. A cooler full of product or livestock water systems don't tolerate outages well. See Commercial Battery Backup & Load Management.

Different rules than a house, and there's a real deadline right now. Commercial solar has its own tax credit on its own schedule — see the bottom FAQ below for the current details, and talk to a tax professional before assuming what applies to your situation.

Built specifically for Bastrop & Fayette County
Sized around real equipment loads, not square footage
Barns, ranches, and commercial buildings
Before You Decide

Is Commercial or Agricultural Solar Right for Your Operation?

How is commercial/agricultural solar actually different from a residential system?
It's not really about the building size — it's about the load. A working property draws power unevenly and in bursts: an irrigation pump kicking on, a grain dryer running for a few weeks a year, a walk-in cooler cycling constantly. Sizing starts with what's actually running and when, rather than a square-footage estimate the way a home system might be roughed in.
Can solar power irrigation pumps or well pumps directly?
Yes, though pumps draw a large surge of power at startup that has to be accounted for in the system design, not just their steady running wattage. A system undersized for that startup surge will struggle even if it looks adequate on paper for average use.
What kind of power draw do grain dryers and walk-in coolers actually need?
Grain dryers are seasonal but heavy — they can draw more power in a few concentrated weeks than the rest of the property uses across the whole year. Walk-in coolers are the opposite: lower draw, but constant, cycling on and off around the clock year-round. Both get accounted for separately in a real load calculation rather than averaged together.
Do I need three-phase power for a larger system?
It depends on what's being powered. Some larger equipment is built for three-phase power, which changes both the inverter setup and the utility interconnection process compared to standard single-phase residential service. We confirm what your equipment actually needs and what your utility can provide before designing around an assumption either way.
Is my farm or ranch too small — or too remote — for this to make sense?
Not necessarily. Smaller operations often benefit the most from targeting one or two specific loads — an irrigation pump or a cooler — rather than trying to offset the whole property at once. Remoteness can actually work in solar's favor if extending utility service to a far corner of the property would be expensive; a smaller off-grid or hybrid system sized to a specific piece of equipment is sometimes the more practical option there.
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Agricultural Solar for Barns & Outbuildings

Barns, equipment sheds, and outbuildings often have plenty of usable roof or adjacent land for solar, and powering them directly avoids running new utility service across the property for a building that's some distance from the main meter. Metal barn roofs, common across Bastrop and Fayette County ranches, mount solar without penetrating the roofing the same way a standing-seam house roof does.

Irrigation Pump Power Systems

Irrigation and well pumps pull a large startup surge well beyond their steady running wattage, and a system sized only for average use will struggle at that moment every time the pump kicks on. We size around that surge specifically, not just the pump's rated horsepower, and consider whether the pump runs during daylight hours (a good match for direct solar) or at other times (which usually points toward adding battery storage or staying grid-tied as backup).

Livestock Operation Power

Walk-in coolers, automated feed systems, and water pumps for livestock all draw power differently — coolers cycle constantly around the clock, feed systems draw in short bursts on a schedule, and water systems depend on herd size and season. A livestock operation's system gets designed around all three running together, not just the biggest single load in isolation.

Grain Storage & Drying Power Systems

Grain dryers are the classic example of a seasonal but massive load — a few concentrated weeks of heavy draw that can outstrip the rest of the property's annual usage combined. A system built around dryer season specifically, rather than averaged across the whole year, is what makes solar actually useful for this kind of operation instead of oversized every month it isn't drying season.

Commercial Rooftop & Ground-Mount Solar

A commercial building's roof — metal, membrane, or otherwise — gets evaluated the same way a residential roof does: material, angle, remaining lifespan, and available space, plus whatever rooftop equipment (HVAC units, vents) already competes for that space. Where roof space is limited or the building's orientation doesn't cooperate, ground-mount on adjacent commercial land is often the more practical option, similar to how it works on rural residential acreage.

Commercial Battery Backup & Load Management

Equipment that can't tolerate an outage — a cooler full of product, livestock water systems, refrigeration — is exactly what commercial battery backup is built to protect, following the same essential-circuits logic covered on our Battery Storage & Backup Power page, scaled to commercial and agricultural equipment instead of household circuits. Load management can also stagger heavy equipment (like a well pump and a grain dryer) so they don't draw simultaneously and strain the system.

Commercial Permitting & Utility Interconnection

Commercial and agricultural systems often involve a different interconnection process than a residential install — larger systems can require additional utility review, and three-phase equipment changes what the utility needs to approve before activation. We confirm the specific requirements for your utility and system size upfront rather than assuming residential-scale paperwork applies.

Where We Work

Serving Farms, Ranches & Businesses Across Bastrop & Fayette County

Commercial and agricultural solar throughout Bastrop and Fayette County, from working ranches to small-town commercial buildings.

More Questions

Commercial & Agricultural Solar FAQ

Is there still a tax credit for commercial or agricultural solar in 2026?
Yes, but it runs on entirely different rules than the residential credit, which ended for good in 2025. The commercial/business solar Investment Tax Credit is still available at 30% (plus possible bonus percentages for things like domestic-content equipment), but it's on a hard deadline under 2025 federal legislation: projects that began construction by July 4, 2026 keep the credit with more time to finish; anything starting construction after that date has to be fully placed in service by December 31, 2027 to still qualify. There are also new sourcing and ownership restrictions on equipment tied to certain foreign countries for projects breaking ground in 2026 and beyond. This is genuinely complex and situation-specific — talk to a tax professional about your specific project timeline and eligibility rather than relying on this page alone.
Are USDA REAP grants available for farm or ranch solar right now?
Not currently. USDA has paused new REAP grant awards while it rewrites the program's regulations, with no announced timeline for when grants will resume. REAP's guaranteed loan program, which is separate from the grants, remains open and accepting applications. If REAP grant funding is part of your planning, it's worth checking directly with USDA Rural Development for the current status before counting on it.
Does a solar system need to be sized differently for a working farm than for a house?
Yes — a farm or ranch typically has a handful of large, specific loads (a pump, a dryer, a cooler) rather than the more evenly spread-out usage of a household. Sizing starts with identifying those specific loads and when they run, not a general estimate based on property size.
Can commercial or agricultural solar be combined with battery backup?
Yes, and it's especially worth considering for equipment that can't tolerate losing power, like refrigeration or livestock water systems. See our Battery Storage & Backup Power page for how that works, scaled to commercial and agricultural equipment.
What happens to equipment like walk-in coolers if the grid goes down?
Without battery backup, a grid-tied solar system shuts off during an outage the same way a residential system does, even with the sun out — that's a standard safety requirement. Battery backup sized around specifically what can't lose power, like a cooler or a water system, is what keeps those pieces of equipment running through an outage.

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