Home Depot adds solar at stores

Home Depot said in February 2023 that it would add 13 megawatts of rooftop solar at 25 California stores. (corporate.homedepot.com) The company said the panels would sit on store roofs, not new land, and would generate more than 17 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year for those locations. (corporate.homedepot.com) Home Depot said construction was set to start in early 2023 with developer DSD Renewables. Ron Jarvis, the company’s chief sustainability officer at the time, said the project was part of a push to expand on-site solar. (corporate.homedepot.com) The California rollout fit into a larger target Home Depot announced in late 2022: produce or procure renewable electricity equal to the needs of all its facilities by 2030. The retailer also said a separate 100-megawatt solar purchase would cover the equivalent of nearly 8 percent of its total electricity use. (mdm.com) At the time of the California announcement, Home Depot said it already had rooftop solar on more than 80 stores and fuel cells at more than 200 stores. DSD said the new California portfolio would bring its Home Depot solar work to 98 stores. (corporate.homedepot.com) (renewableenergyworld.com) California is the country’s biggest distributed-solar market, with more than 20,220 megawatts installed across customer-sited projects as of data current through February 28, 2026, according to the state’s official tracking site. That makes big-box roofs one of the larger existing surfaces available for on-site generation. (californiadgstats.ca.gov) Home Depot’s current sustainability page links to a 2025 “Living Our Values” report and continues to list “operate sustainably” as a core reporting category. The company’s investor relations site also still hosts its sustainability materials as of April 2026. (ir.homedepot.com) (corporate.homedepot.com) The project’s basic pitch was simple: use the roof space the stores already own to make some of the power the stores already need. That keeps the expansion tied to existing buildings while Home Depot chases its 2030 electricity goal. (corporate.homedepot.com)