Live — updated August 17, 2026

Solar Installation in Tampa, FL: who AI recommends

When someone in Tampa asks an AI assistant for a solar installer, the answer is a shortlist — and being off it means never being considered. This page tracks that shortlist: the same consumer questions go to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and 8 more AI assistants every week, and what they answer is recorded here.

Covers Tampa and nearby areas including St. Petersburg, Brandon, Wesley Chapel, South Tampa, Clearwater.

The consensus this month

Every business below was named by the assistants themselves when we asked for solar installers in Tampa, FL. Rank order reflects how often — and how unanimously — the engines named each one.

As of August 17, 2026, Tampa Bay Solar is the solar installer AI assistants most recommend in Tampa, FL, named by 9 of 12 assistants. Lunex Power and Sunrun rank next.

Rank	Business & the assistants naming it	Coverage	Mentions	Change
1	Tampa Bay Solar tampabaysolar.com Google AI OverviewsAlexaChatGPTClaudeMicrosoft CopilotGeminiMistralPerplexitySiri Is this your business?	9 of 12	38	new
2	Lunex Power lunexpower.com Google AI OverviewsAlexaClaudeGeminiPerplexitySiri Is this your business?	6 of 12	20	new
3	Sunrun sunrun.com ClaudeMicrosoft CopilotDeepSeekGeminiGrokPerplexity Is this your business?	6 of 12	17	new
4	Florida Electric & Solar floridaelectricandsolar.com ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexitySiri Is this your business?	5 of 12	16	new
5	Affordable Solar, Roof, & Air solarroofair.com Google AI OverviewsGeminiPerplexitySiri Is this your business?	4 of 12	15	new
6	Momentum Solar momentumsolar.com ChatGPTClaudeMicrosoft CopilotDeepSeekMistral Is this your business?	5 of 12	14	new
7	Solar Bear solarbear.com ClaudeMicrosoft CopilotMistral Is this your business?	3 of 12	14	new
8	Freedom Solar Power freedomsolarpower.com ClaudeDeepSeekGeminiGrok Is this your business?	4 of 12	11	new
9	Solar Solutions Inc solarsolutionsinc.net ChatGPTClaudeGemini Is this your business?	3 of 12	11	new
10	Aspire Solar aspiresolarenergy.com AlexaClaudeGeminiPerplexity Is this your business?	4 of 12	9	new
11	Florida Power Services floridapowerservices.com ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity Is this your business?	4 of 12	9	new
12	Fused Solar & Roofing fusedsolarandroofing.com Google AI OverviewsClaudePerplexity Is this your business?	3 of 12	9	new
13	Tesla Solar tesla.com DeepSeekGeminiGrok Is this your business?	3 of 12	9	new
14	Coast To Coast Solar coasttocoastsolar.com ChatGPTGemini Is this your business?	2 of 12	8	new
15	Fuze Inc D/B/A Fused Solar and Roofing GeminiPerplexitySiri Is this your business?	3 of 12	7	new
16	Florida Solar One floridasolarone.com GrokMistral Is this your business?	2 of 12	7	new
17	Powersol USA powersolusa.com ChatGPTClaude Is this your business?	2 of 12	7	new
18	Solar Optimum Florida solaroptimum.com ClaudeDeepSeek Is this your business?	2 of 12	7	new
19	Transform Solar transformsolarfl.com PerplexitySiri Is this your business?	2 of 12	7	new
20	Solar Advantage solaradv.com ClaudeGeminiPerplexitySiri Is this your business?	4 of 12	6	new
21	Palmetto Solar ClaudeGeminiSiri Is this your business?	3 of 12	6	new
22	SunPower by Freedom Solar GeminiMistral Is this your business?	2 of 12	6	new
23	Solar Energy World solarenergyworld.com Microsoft CopilotDeepSeekGeminiGrokSiri Is this your business?	5 of 12	5	new
24	Flo Energy floenergy.solar ChatGPT Is this your business?	1 of 12	5	new
25	ShopSolar Claude Is this your business?	1 of 12	5	new

Sample: 64 assistant answers across 12 engines on 3 question phrasings, week of August 17, 2026. 18 unverifiable names (likely hallucinations) dropped.

Business links point to each company's own website — taken from what the assistants cited or wrote, and otherwise from a verified business-listing lookup that had to return this exact business by name. We never guess a domain, so a name without a link is one we could not confirm.

Asked the ways customers actually ask

The same assistants, the same week, three phrasings of one need — ranked separately. A business that wins “best” but loses “most affordable” is losing a different customer each time.

Who are the best solar installers in Tampa, FL?

1 Tampa Bay Solar
2 Lunex Power
3 Sunrun
4 Momentum Solar
5 Aspire Solar
6 Florida Power Services

Best affordable solar installer near Tampa?

1 Tampa Bay Solar
2 Affordable Solar, Roof, & Air
3 Florida Electric & Solar
4 Lunex Power
5 Freedom Solar Power
6 Solar Bear

I need a solar installer in Tampa, FL. Who do you recommend?

1 Tampa Bay Solar
2 Lunex Power
3 Sunrun
4 Florida Electric & Solar
5 Solar Bear
6 Solar Solutions Inc

32 sources the assistants read

Every site behind this month's answers, by share of all citations and how many assistants relied on it. Earning a mention on the pages near the top is what moves a ranking; nothing on this page can be bought.

Source	Share of citations	Used by
energysage.com	14.3%	4 of 12
reddit.com	9.9%	3 of 12
solarreviews.com	9.3%	4 of 12
consumeraffairs.com	6.2%	2 of 12
tampaelectric.com	5.6%	2 of 12
tampabaysolar.com	5%	3 of 12
coasttocoastsolar.com	3.7%	1 of 12
yelp.com	3.7%	1 of 12
solarsolutionsinc.net	3.1%	1 of 12
powersolusa.com	3.1%	1 of 12
floenergy.solar	3.1%	1 of 12
solarroofair.com	2.5%	2 of 12
tampa.gov	2.5%	2 of 12
evergreensolar.com	2.5%	1 of 12
lunexpower.com	2.5%	1 of 12
tampatoprated.com	2.5%	1 of 12
transformsolarfl.com	2.5%	1 of 12
floridapowerservices.com	1.9%	1 of 12
homeguide.com	1.9%	1 of 12
ecowatch.com	1.9%	1 of 12
greenplanetsolarsystems.com	1.9%	1 of 12
floridaelectricandsolar.com	1.2%	2 of 12
poweroutage.us	1.2%	1 of 12
lehmannelectrical.com	1.2%	1 of 12
sunrun.com	1.2%	1 of 12

72 assistant answers collected 161 citations from 32 sources 58 businesses named 3 question phrasings × 12 assistants No business can pay to be ranked · methodology

Is your business in this answer?

12 assistants answered “Who are the best solar installers in Tampa, FL?” this month and named 25 solar installers in Tampa, FL. Which side of that list you are on decides whether a customer asking that question ever hears your name.

On the list, and want to be higher?

Rank here is set by how many assistants repeat your name and which sources they read to decide it — the 25 sources above are the ones that shaped this answer. Our platform measures exactly that for one business: the same 12 assistants, daily instead of weekly, which of those sources you appear on and which you don't, and every fix tracked until the answer changes.

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Then for this question you were not in the answer at all — not ranked low, absent from the shortlist, with nothing to tell you it happened. That is the ordinary case: most solar installers in Tampa, FL are never named. Finding out is free.

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Common questions

Which solar installer do AI assistants recommend in Tampa, FL?

As of August 17, 2026, Tampa Bay Solar — named by 9 of 12 assistants across 38 mentions. Lunex Power and Sunrun rank next.

How many solar installers did AI assistants name in Tampa, FL?

58 businesses were named across 72 answers from 12 assistants, on 3 phrasings of the question. 25 of them were named often enough to rank.

How is this ranking measured?

Fixed, unbranded consumer questions — including "Who are the best solar installers in Tampa, FL?" — are put to the same assistants every week. Named businesses are resolved to one entity, a name mentioned only once is dropped as unverifiable, and a cell publishes nothing until enough answers accumulate. No business can pay to appear or to rank higher.

The questions we ask

The prompt set is fixed and unbranded, so week-over-week movement means the assistants changed their answer — not that we changed the question.

Who are the best solar installers in Tampa, FL?
I need a solar installer in Tampa, FL. Who do you recommend?
Best affordable solar installer near Tampa?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot answer in live, web-connected mode; Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Mistral answer from model knowledge only, and Siri and Alexa through the voice stack. Each is labeled in the methodology.

More Tampa rankings

Every category we track in Tampa, FL, measured the same way.

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Move up this list

This page measures a whole market once a week, for free. Our software measures a single business across the same 12 assistants daily — which ones name you, which sources they trust to decide it, what to fix next, and whether the answer actually moved.

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