Vote for the 2026 Solar Builder Project of the Year Awards
It’s time to vote! Keep your ballot-punching skills sharp by casting your vote for your favorite candidates in the 2026 Solar Builder Project of the Year Awards. Stakeholders from all corners of the solar industry have sent in their top nominees, and your diligent Solar Builder editors have narrowed the field down to these 21 projects across four categories — and now it’s time for you to choose the winners.
Nominees are grouped into four size categories Under 100 kW, 101 kW to 1 MW, Over 1 MW to 10 MW, and Over 10 MW.
Below you’ll find the pages for each category. After you submit a vote, you can navigate to the other categories from the submission confirmation page. You are allowed to vote once per day from now until midnight (ET) on Friday, Oct. 16. (FYI: Our voting widget will let you vote more than once a day, but we filter these out in the back-end. Sorry, ballot stuffers.) Winners will be announced and prominently featured in the Q4 issue of Solar Builder magazine and online in December.
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Thank you to sponsor Aurora Solar for once again sponsoring the Project of the Year awards.
Make sure you vote in every category!
Under 100 kW
- Cal Black Memorial Airport Microgrid
- Catholic Charities Catherine Sheridan Houses Rooftop Solar
- Maine High Adventure Off-Grid Solar & Battery Upgrade
101 kW to 1 MW
- Ann Arbor Sustainable Energy Utility Pilot Program
- Anythink Nature Library
- Foodlink x GreenSpark Solar PV Project
- MANNA FoodBank
- Naples Airport
1 MW to 10 MW
- Christiana Solar Farm – CattleTracker
- Dell Data Center Manufacturing Campus
- Fairfield Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Granville Agrivoltaics Project
- Hillsboro Solar Project – Eagle Zinc Superfund Redevelopment
- KIA Hail Canopies
- Oh Be Joyful Solar Array
Over 10 MW
- Bellefield Solar Project
- Big Muddy Solar Project
- Escape Solar + Storage
- Gibson City Solar
- Tilden Solar
- Wattsmart VPP Battery Program
