Scrape Solar Installers From Google Maps Turn map listings into a sales-ready B2B pipeline

Solar installers are a high-value target

Residential and commercial solar keeps expanding, and the installer at the end of the chain is the buyer for a long list of products and services. According to the International Energy Agency, solar PV is the fastest-growing source of new electricity generation, which means new installers appear on Google Maps every quarter.

If you sell panels, inverters, racking, batteries, permitting or design software, financing, or marketing services, those installers are your accounts. The problem is finding them, keeping the list fresh, and knowing enough about each one to write a message worth opening.

Google Maps is the most complete public directory of local solar companies. The trick is getting that data out in a usable shape, not copying phone numbers into a spreadsheet by hand.

How to scrape solar installers step by step

The extension is the means here, not the destination. It captures the raw listings, and the Vonsel dashboard does the work that turns them into revenue. The capture itself takes a couple of minutes.

1. Search on Google Maps. Type a query like solar installers in Phoenix or solar panel installation near Austin. You can also use adjacent terms such as solar energy company or photovoltaic contractor to widen coverage.

2. Run the capture. Click the Vonsel pop-up on the map. It reads the visible results and pulls name, address, phone, website, category, star rating, and review count for each installer. Browser-based capture keeps you inside the same interface Google shows every visitor, so there is nothing to configure. For context on how the underlying data is structured, Google documents its own Places data fields.

3. Send to the dashboard. The captured installers appear in your mapped CRM. From there you enrich, filter, analyze, and reach out. You can also reopen the same scrape later and add more results, or attach reviews to businesses you already saved, so the list grows with you instead of going stale.

A CSV is not a pipeline

Most scrapers stop at the export. You get rows of names and numbers, and then you still have to find emails, judge which installers are worth the call, and write every message from scratch. That is where deals quietly die.

Vonsel treats the capture as the first step. Each solar installer becomes an enriched, contextualized record: its website is scanned for a real contact email and social profiles, and its Google reviews are read by AI so you know what customers praise and what they complain about. For the difference between raw exports and enriched data, see Google Maps data vs bought lists.

The real pains of a solar installer

AI email written for each installer

Generic blasts to info@ addresses are why so many scraped solar lists never convert. Vonsel writes an email tailored to each installer using its category, rating, and the pain points found in its reviews, so the first line already sounds like you did your homework.

That is the end the extension serves. You capture in seconds, the dashboard enriches and analyzes, and then you send outreach that reads like a human wrote it one installer at a time. Learn how it works in AI email for each business.

Because everything sits in a mapped CRM, you can also draw a territory, sort installers by review volume or rating, and plan a route to visit the best ones in person. The same capture powers cold email, calls, and field visits without exporting anywhere.

Widen your net around solar

Solar rarely sells in isolation. Roofers, electricians, and HVAC firms sit next to installers in the same buying conversations, and many cross-sell each other. Capturing the adjacent trades gives you a fuller local market.

Use the same free extension to build lists of roofers, electricians, and HVAC companies. If you want the mechanics of pulling emails at volume, the email extraction guide and the lead capture walkthrough cover the details. The extension itself is a standard Chrome extension.