Solar Electrical & Wiring in the Texas Hill Country

Hill Country Solar Installation

Getting solar onto a roof is one job. Wiring it so it ties into your home’s electrical system safely, passes inspection, and actually produces power is another — and that’s the part we handle. Texas Highlands Electric does the electrical side of solar for homes and light commercial properties across Boerne and the Hill Country: interconnection at the panel, inverter and disconnect wiring, dedicated circuits, and the code-compliant connections that make a system reliable. Whether you’re putting in a new array, reconnecting panels after a roof replacement, or rewiring a system that was never done right, we make sure the electrical work holds up.

The Electrical Side of a Solar Install

Mounting the panels is the visible part of a solar project. The electrical work is what determines whether the system is safe and whether it passes inspection. That means running conductors from the array to the inverter, wiring the inverter to a disconnect and into your service, protecting every leg with the right breakers, and bonding and grounding the whole system so it’s safe in a fault. Done wrong, you get nuisance trips, underproduction, a failed inspection, or a real fire risk. We focus on that side and get it right the first time.

When You Need an Electrician for Solar

Not every solar project is the same, but the electrical work usually comes up in a few situations:

• A new array that needs to be tied into your service panel
• Panels reconnected after a roof replacement or repair
• An existing system rewired because it was installed poorly or is failing
• A service panel that can’t support the interconnection without changes
• Adding a battery or backup to an existing solar setup
• Inverter replacement or upgrade wiring

If any of that describes your project, that’s where a licensed electrician belongs.

Solar Electrical Services We Provide:

• Electrical connection and interconnection for new solar arrays
• Inverter, disconnect, and combiner wiring
• Dedicated circuits and subpanels for solar
• Panel and service upgrades to support solar interconnection
• System rewiring and panel replacement
• Solar battery and backup wiring
• Grounding, bonding, and code-compliant connections
• Testing, verification, and inspection support

Will Your Panel Support Solar?

This is the question that decides how straightforward a solar tie-in is. A solar system back-feeds power into your panel, and the main breaker and busbar can only handle so much combined. When the existing main is too large or the busbar is already loaded, the system can’t just land on any open breaker — it may need a smaller main, a line-side connection, or a subpanel to interconnect safely and to code. We check what your panel can actually take before anyone starts pulling wire, so the interconnection is planned right instead of discovered at inspection. If the panel needs work, we handle panel and service upgrades too, so it’s one crew and one plan.

Solar Batteries & Backup

A lot of Hill Country homeowners add solar partly to keep power on when the grid goes down. That only works if the system is wired for it — with a battery, the right transfer setup, and critical loads separated so the essentials stay running. We wire batteries and backup for new and existing solar systems, and if you’re weighing solar storage against a standby generator, we can talk through what each one actually does during an outage.

What to Expect

We start by looking at your panel, your service, and where the system needs to tie in, then explain what the electrical scope involves before any work starts. We coordinate with your solar installer or handle the electrical portion directly, wire everything to code with proper sizing, protection, grounding, and secure connections, and test the system before we call it done. As licensed, insured Texas electricians, we handle the permit and inspection steps where they apply so the interconnection is signed off correctly.