UNSPSC 26131507: Solar power plants

UNSPSC 26131507 Solar power plants (Commodity) is being procured by state and local governments primarily for rooftop photovoltaic arrays and system expansions at municipal facilities, school buildings, and public utilities. Recent solicitations show municipalities and school districts sourcing complete solar installations—modules, inverters, optimizers, rapid shutdown devices, data acquisition systems, and design-engineering services—either as turnkey projects or as component procurements with integration requirements. The work spans design, permitting, procurement, installation, and long-term operations or maintenance; some solicitations target solar-plus-storage microgrids or solar-plus-EV-charging integrated systems. Issuing bodies include city departments, county governments, independent school districts, regional school districts, water authorities, and special-purpose districts. Salt Lake City School District appears as a repeat buyer, posting multiple IFBs in September 2026 for solar modules, rooftop and canopy inverter systems, and associated power electronics across Phase 4 of a district-wide sustainability initiative. Cities (Pasadena, Decatur, Tybee Island, Tempe) and counties (Salt Lake, Boulder, Fairfax) round out the buyer base, with solar procurement also visible among transit and utility entities.

Recent opportunities cluster in the Southwest and mountain West, particularly Utah and Arizona, with secondary activity in Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia, Colorado, and California. Representative current solicitations include the City of Tybee Island's RFP for a 42-kilowatt rooftop solar array at the Marine Science Center, due November 3, 2026, with Q-Cell panels (US-made, minimum 400W per unit) and SMA inverters; Salt Lake City School District's IFB for 2,537 solar photovoltaic modules (two pre-approved models—SEG Solar and Jinko Solar—across four school sites) due September 23, 2026; and Salt Lake County's RFB for a 27.2-kilowatt annual-production rooftop expansion at the Clark Planetarium, expanding an existing 27.6-kilowatt Evergreen array, due October 8, 2026. The City of Decatur's RFP for design and engineering of a 170-kilowatt solar system paired with 250-kilowatt battery storage and DC fast charger at the Police Department, due October 13, 2026, exemplifies the trend toward integrated renewable-plus-storage procurement. Connecticut is active on the school front (Woodland Regional High School, 663.68 kilowatt direct current system; Suffield High School standing-seam roof with photovoltaic), and Dallas posted an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity agreement for solar maintenance and repair services. Federal Build America, Buy America domestic content and prevailing wage requirements appear in multiple solicitations, particularly school district and municipality projects.