Generate solar leads from permit data, find active installers, and track new policies driving adoption.
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Access solar, EV charger, heat pump, and battery permits at the contractor level to support partnerships, lead generation, or network growth.
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When a homeowner pulls a solar permit, they’re signaling intent for vendors. Turn filings into residential and commercial solar leads, updated twice monthly.
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Shovels Decisions tracks debates and code updates from municipalities nationwide so you can identify demand before it shows up in permits.
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Homeowners often pull permits before financing is in place. Surface recent home permits by geography so lenders and financing platforms can reach prospects at exactly the right moment.
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Don’t wait for annual reports. Know where electrification is accelerating by accessing a real-time view of adoption rates and installation trends.
Access our data via API, SFTP, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks. Custom feeds are also available.
Clean, structured inputs out of the box. No raw text parsing required. Check out our data dictionary for details.
Millions of new records (online and offline sources) are added each cycle to keep your data fresh.
We source data from thousands of jurisdictions online and offline through public records. New jurisdictions are added continuously based on market trends & customer demand, with coverage spanning all major metros and expanding rural markets.
Shovels identifies and classifies permits for solar installations, EV chargers, heat pump HVAC systems, heat pump water heaters, and battery storage systems using AI-enhanced classification across jurisdictions nationwide.
Shovels Decisions monitors city council meetings for reach code adoption, natural gas restriction debates, heat pump mandate discussions, and local incentive program approvals, giving you visibility into policy-driven demand before it shows up in permits.
In most US jurisdictions, yes. Shovels tracks EV charger permits nationwide, so energy companies, utilities, and charging network operators can identify properties with active permits, find the installers pulling them, and measure adoption rates by market.
Permit data is updated twice monthly with millions of new records added each cycle. AI classification is applied continuously so new solar, EV charger, and heat pump permits are tagged and queryable as they are ingested.
Solar installation permits are the clearest signal that a homeowner or business is installing solar. Shovels aggregates these permits from thousands of US jurisdictions, so energy companies, solar financiers, and hardware manufacturers can power solar lead generation programs based on actual installation activity rather than ad responses or survey-based intent data. Filter by geography, permit recency, system size, and contractor to build targeted solar lead gen lists, updated twice monthly.
Shovels delivers structured solar permit data including homeowner address, permit date, contractor of record, permit type (residential vs. commercial), and jurisdiction. Energy companies and solar platforms use this as the core data source for solar lead gen programs — identifying homeowners with active permits, tracking competitor installer activity, and measuring solar adoption rates by market. Data is available via API or bulk delivery into your data warehouse.
See how Shovels helps energy and climate teams track installations, reach buyers, and stay ahead of policy.
