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Top 25 Photovoltaic research and development companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 492 photovoltaic research and development companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 13,850 professional contacts across them, including 3,650 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers photovoltaic research and development companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest photovoltaic research and development companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,581 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First Solar, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 954 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Qcells is a renowned complete energy solutions provider in solar cell and module, energy storage, downstream project business and energy retail.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Illuminate USA is an American leader in advanced clean energy manufacturing, dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solar panel technology and sustainable energy solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TAE Technologies (pronounced T-A-E) was founded in 1998 to develop commercial fusion power with the cleanest environmental profile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Teledyne Scientific & Imaging is comprised of Teledyne Scientific Company and Teledyne Imaging Sensors, which includes Teledyne Judson Technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “T1 Energy (NYSE: TE) is building an integrated U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SolAero Technologies Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spectrolab, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, is the world's leading merchant supplier of the Highest-Efficiency Multijunction Solar Cells for Spacecraft Power…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Merlin Solar Technologies, like many of its Silicon Valley compatriots, was founded in a garage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MiaSolé is a producer of lightweight, flexible and power solar cells.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Good Energy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2021, SEG is a leading vertically integrated PV manufacturer headquartered in Houston, Texas, U.S, and is dedicated to delivering reliable and cost-effective solar…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Waaree is a global leader in solar energy, boasting the largest presence outside of China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ceres Technologies, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2009, SolAmerica is a leading Developer, EPC, and Operations & Maintenance Provider of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for commercial, industrial, and government…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Solar is a remarkable technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reflect Orbital is developing technology to sell sunlight to those who need it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heelstone Energy is a leading independent power producer developer with expertise in developing, financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining solar photovoltaic, wind, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “STR was founded in 1944 when two of the world's most prominent polymer scientists, John DeBell and Henry Richardson, started the first dedicated plastics research and development…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Caelux®'s proprietary technologies improve the performance of any new crystalline silicon module, making solar energy more powerful and cost-effective.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Solestial exists to deliver abundant energy in space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Verogy is a renewable energy team with decades of experience in the solar industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: photovoltaic research and development companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names photovoltaic research and development companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photovoltaic research and development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photovoltaic research and development companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Photovoltaic research and development companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 492 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among photovoltaic research and development companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “photovoltaic research and development companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names photovoltaic research and development companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among photovoltaic research and development companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,650 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names photovoltaic research and development companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many photovoltaic research and development companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 492 photovoltaic research and development companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
First Solar, headquartered in Tempe, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most photovoltaic research and development companies?
Los Angeles leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (10) and Miami (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,650 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 492 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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