№ 206 · Listed
Trade · Garage Doors
Location · Cedar City (serving St. George)
Status · Listed in 435 Alliance

Garage Doors

Sterling Solar

Cedar City (serving St. George) · Listed in the 435 Alliance — a Southern Utah register of vetted, locally owned businesses.

Sterling Solar, LLC operates from 1073 S Westview Drive in Cedar City — Iron County rather than Washington County, which matters because most of the 435’s solar attention has been pulled south toward St. George by the master-planned communities and the snowbirds. Cedar is a different market: smaller, older housing stock, less roof-mount real estate but plenty of agricultural and small-commercial sites. Sterling sits there. The phone is 435-592-9887.

Two Founding Stories

The company describes its origins as an electrical services business dating to 1995 that added solar in 2006. Independent business records show the current LLC formally incorporated around 2011. Both can be true — the principals’ electrical work goes back to 1995, and the operating LLC was formed later — but the discrepancy needs to be clarified directly with ownership before a 435 listing relies on either date. No individual owner or founder name surfaces in any public source reviewed, which is unusual for a thirty-year electrical lineage and is itself a flag.

Services and Posture

Published scope is design, installation, and ongoing service of solar energy systems, with the company emphasizing in-house delivery rather than subcontracting. The site skews residential and small commercial; HOAs and contractor partnerships are mentioned. Battery storage and off-grid work are not heavily promoted, though both are common adjacent offerings in the Cedar City market and worth confirming. Sterling’s pitch leans on long-tenured electrical roots rather than a national brand or financing partner.

Two Verification Flags

Two items need care before this listing publishes. First, BuildZoom indexed Sterling Solar as not having an active Utah contractor license verifiable through their automated lookup. That may simply be a data lag — BuildZoom’s index is not authoritative — but the active status should be confirmed directly at secure.utah.gov/llv and cross-checked against St. George City’s pre-qualified solar contractor list (sgcityutah.gov maintains one for net-metering eligibility). Second, the missing owner name should be filled in via direct outreach.

Sterling in the 435

Sources