Solar & EV Charging for Apartment and Multifamily Properties

Pacific Solar has spent over 40 years designing, installing, and maintaining solar systems across Central California — homes, businesses, and now a growing number of multifamily properties. For apartment owners and property managers, that means one contractor who can size a system for your common-area loads, keep it running for decades, and add the amenities today’s renters expect.

What Rising Utility Costs Are Doing to Your NOI

Common-area electricity — lighting, laundry rooms, elevators, gated entries, pool equipment — runs 24/7 whether units are occupied or not, and every rate increase comes straight out of net operating income unless it’s passed through to tenants (which has its own limits and pushback). On top of that, renters increasingly ask about EV charging before signing a lease, and a property with no charging option is starting to look dated to a growing share of applicants. Add in the risk of a multi-day outage knocking out gate access, lighting, and refrigeration for every unit at once, and the case for addressing this now — rather than after the next rate hike — gets harder to ignore.

A System Built Around Your Property's Actual Load

Commercial Solar Systems

— we design and install solar sized to your property's common-area and shared-meter loads, whether that's rooftop across multiple buildings or a single larger array.

Commercial EV Chargers

— adding EV charging is one of the fastest-growing amenity requests from renters; we install and maintain charging stations sized to your parking layout and tenant demand.

Battery Backup & Generators

— battery backup keeps gate access, common-area lighting, and critical systems running through an outage instead of leaving every unit without power at once.

Solar Ground Mounts

— for properties with unused land (open parking areas, unused lot space) rather than ideal roof space.

We don’t just install and leave — every system comes with ongoing performance monitoring and maintenance, so a drop in output gets caught and fixed rather than quietly costing you money for months.

Service Areas

Dedicated to Local Solar Solutions

We install and maintain hotel and hospitality solar throughout Central California, including Fresno, Clovis, Merced, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Atascadero, and Paso Robles, with service across the state.
  • Fresno, CA
  • Clovis, CA
  • Pismo Beach, CA
  • Atascadero, CA
  • Merced, CA
  • Sacramento, CA
  • San Luis Opispo, CA
  • Paso Robles, CA
  • Proudly Serving All of California

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Solar & EV Charging for Apartment and Multifamily Properties FAQs

Yes — even when unit electricity is separately metered, common areas (lighting, laundry, elevators, gates, pools) are almost always on the property’s own meter, and that’s where solar has the most direct impact on your operating costs. Some properties also explore solar for tenant-facing amenities like EV charging, which adds value without changing your metering setup.
In most cases, yes — installation is scheduled around your property’s access needs and typically doesn’t require units to be vacated. We handle permitting, interconnection, and inspection so property staff aren’t managing the process themselves.
It depends on your market and tenant base, but EV charging has moved from a rare request to a common one, especially in newer or higher-end properties, and it’s the kind of amenity that shows up in leasing decisions. We can help size a charging setup to your actual parking layout and expected demand rather than over- or under-building it.
Without backup power, a grid outage takes down gate access, common-area and exterior lighting, elevators, and any refrigerated common-area equipment for the entire property at once — not just one unit. Battery backup, especially paired with solar, keeps those systems running through shorter outages and reduces how exposed the property is during longer ones.
Multifamily sizing starts from your common-area and shared-meter load rather than a single household’s usage, and often needs to account for available roof space across multiple buildings or a ground-mount option instead. We size the system to your actual metered load rather than a generic per-unit estimate.