Northwest Electric and Solar

Northwest Electric and Solar has built one of the most heavily credentialed residential solar PV practices in Washington State, and the company has been recognized for it. Founded in 2011 by Master Electrician Derek White and headquartered at 18001 73rd Avenue NE in Kenmore, Washington, the company was the first in Washington and one of just ten nationally to earn NABCEP accreditation as a company, which is a step beyond having NABCEP-certified individual installers on staff. The company has been ranked Washington's number one Residential Solar and Storage Contractor in back-to-back years and was featured as a top solar contractor by Solar Power World magazine in 2025. What stood out to our research team is the breadth of the technical credentials stacked on top of one another. Northwest Electric and Solar is a Tesla Premier Certified Installer, the highest tier Tesla awards to its dealer partners and one Tesla revokes routinely from underperforming companies, and the team also installs Tesla Solar Roof, an integrated photovoltaic shingle product that requires a separate Tesla-specific certification path. The company carries a full Washington Electrical License (NORTHES876MA) and an industry-leading 25-year combined workmanship, replacement, and production warranty, which is meaningfully more generous than the 10-to-12-year workmanship windows that most competitors offer. The team draws on more than seventy years of collective electrical experience and over forty years of combined solar installation experience, and they install Qcell, REC, and Meyer Burger panels paired with SolarEdge and Enphase microinverter platforms. Prospective customers should know that Northwest Electric and Solar's review base on EnergySage is small in absolute terms, even though the ratings are very high, and the company's premium positioning means quotes tend to land at the higher end of the Washington market. The company is not in the EnergySage screened network. Buyers who want a long-warranty, NABCEP-accredited installer with deep Tesla credentials and are willing to pay for those credentials will find this an excellent option. With a composite score of 79.0 out of 100, Northwest Electric and Solar holds the third-ranked position in Washington for 2026.