Case Studies•July 2026•4 min read

Case Studies: Real Solar Permit & Interconnection Projects

Three projects from the EnersolConnect portfolio — a Puerto Rico battery install navigating OGPe and LUMA, a 240 kW California commercial array, and a fast-turnaround Texas residential Powerwall job. Real project codes, specs, and turnaround times.

Case Study 1 · Puerto Rico

Residential + Battery, LUMA Interconnection in 4 Days

Project
P-1042 · Bayamón, PR
Scope
12.4 kW + 13.5 kWh ESS
AHJ / Utility
OGPe / LUMA Energy
Turnaround
4 business days
Panels
31 × 400W

The situation

Puerto Rico solar-plus-storage projects have a structural complication mainland projects don't: two separate authorities in the loop (OGPe for the building permit, LUMA for interconnection), and an outage-prone grid that makes battery sizing and interconnection paperwork genuinely load-bearing — not a nice-to-have add-on.

What shipped

A full plan set covering the 12.4 kW array and 13.5 kWh battery integration, PE-stamped for Puerto Rico, structured for both OGPe permitting and LUMA's interconnection process — in 4 business days.

Why it matters

This is the kind of project where "we cover all 50 states" isn't the differentiator — "we know OGPe and LUMA specifically" is. It's also a direct example of the bilingual EN/ES support that's part of the core offer, not a marketing bullet point.

Case Study 2 · California

240 kW Commercial Carport Array

Project
P-1043 · Bakersfield, CA
Scope
240 kW · 600 modules
AHJ
Kern County
Turnaround
12 business days
Type
Commercial

The situation

A 600-module carport array is a different engineering problem than a residential roof job — structural load calculations for a purpose-built carport structure (not an existing roof), a county AHJ with its own submission quirks, and a scale where a single rejected detail costs real time across the whole project, not just one homeowner's schedule.

What shipped

A complete commercial plan set — structural engineering for the carport mounting system, electrical design for 600 modules, PE-stamped for California — delivered in 12 business days, in line with the Enterprise tier's custom-SLA structure rather than a fixed small-project timeline.

Why it matters

This is the project to point to when a commercial developer or larger installer asks "have you done anything at scale, or is this mostly small residential jobs?"

Case Study 3 · Texas

Fast-Turnaround Residential + Powerwall

Project
P-1044 · Austin, TX
Scope
6.8 kW + Tesla Powerwall 3
AHJ / Utility
Austin Energy
Turnaround
2 business days
Panels
17

The situation

Austin Energy has its own specific interconnection requirements distinct from the rest of Texas, and a homeowner adding battery storage to a relatively modest 6.8 kW system still needs the same rigor as a much larger project — NEC 706 compliance doesn't scale down just because the system does.

What shipped

A residential plan set with Powerwall 3 integration, PE-stamped and structured for Austin Energy's specific interconnection process, turned around in 2 business days — near the fast end of the published 2–3 day residential SLA.

Why it matters

This is the project to point to when someone asks "you say 2–5 days, but does that actually happen?" — it's not an aspirational number, it's a shipped project.

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