Solar Write For Us
Four phrasings across six energy terms returned 106 candidate pages. All of them were opened, and 43 were live and actually inviting contributions.
20 cleared Open PageRank 2, the floor our master list uses. A hand review then removed 7, the heaviest cut of any vertical in this batch.
The table below is 13 sites. Each publishes about solar, renewables or the energy transition, and each was reachable on the day we checked.
5 sites named a fee on their contributor page and were removed for it. Those are advertising, and they are priced as advertising.
MentionAgent classifies every reply its campaigns receive. As of 22 September 2026 there are 1,851 replies with a classification, across 1,478 distinct domains.
524 of those replies, 28.3%, were about money: 285 straight paid offers, 169 counter-offers and 70 proposed deals.
262 (14.2%) declined outright, and 255 were spam or off-topic. Only 41 replies, 2.2%, ended in a confirmed link.
So a contributor page that invites pitches is not a promise of a free placement. Close to three replies in ten open a conversation about a price instead.
Counted from MentionAgent's production conversation table on 22 September 2026, across every workspace, one classification per conversation. Our own campaigns, not a market benchmark.
Solar has two publics that barely overlap. There is a trade and policy side writing about grid connection, procurement and decarbonisation, and a consumer side writing about panels on a roof and what they cost. The contributor pages that survived this crawl sit almost entirely on the trade side, which is the opposite of what the search phrasing suggests.
How this list was built
Every row started as a search result and ended as a page we fetched. Nothing was carried over from another list, and nothing is here because somebody else published it.
The footprint search ran four phrasings against six terms: solar, solar energy, solar panels, renewable energy, solar installation and photovoltaic. Stripping platforms, wires and competitor listicles left 106 candidate domains.
43 passed. The 63 that failed were 26 blocked by bot protection, 26 off-topic, 6 unreachable and 5 selling placements. Blocked means we could not read the page, and it is recorded as blocked rather than dead.
Solar sites accepting guest posts
Sorted by Open PageRank, highest first, with the submission path linked so you can read the requirements before writing.
| Site | Open PageRank | Submission page | Domain |
|---|---|---|---|
| enverus.com | 6.15 | /write-for-us | enverus.com |
| Urban Splatter | 5.68 | /write-for-us-solar | urbansplatter.com |
| businessfirms.co | 5.30 | /write-for-us-renewable-energy | businessfirms.co |
| Global Bioenergy Partnership | 4.20 | /write-for-us | globalbioenergy.org |
| impactentrepreneur.com | 3.95 | /about/become-a-contributor | impactentrepreneur.com |
| Techies Guardian | 3.81 | /renewable-energy-write-for-us | techiesguardian.com |
| REGlobal | 3.54 | /write-for-us | reglobal.org |
| Marketing2Business | 3.51 | /solar-panels-write-for-us | marketing2business.com |
| Industrial Decarbonization Network | 3.32 | /become-a-contributor | industrialdecarbonizationnetwork.com |
| wikitechblog.com | 3.02 | /solar-panels-write-for-us | wikitechblog.com |
| EcoIdeaz | 3.01 | /write-for-us | ecoideaz.com |
| Proche | 2.97 | /submit-guest-blogs-on-renewable-energy-write-for-us | theproche.com |
| Maxworld Power | 2.71 | /write-for-us | maxworldpower.com |
The scale is logarithmic and runs 0 to 10, so the step from 2.0 to 3.0 is much larger than it appears. It is published because it is checkable, not because it predicts whether a placement earns you anything.
Why the hand review cut seven sites
Seven sites passed every automated check and still came off the list, the heaviest hand cut in this batch. Two were outside the United States, one in Pakistan and one in the United Kingdom, and both serve a different grid, a different subsidy regime and a different reader.
Three were write-for-us farms: pages that accept anything on any subject, with domain names unrelated to whatever they publish. A farm will take your post and it will do nothing for you, which is the outcome this page exists to help you avoid.
One was an SEO agency's template article about writing guest-post guidelines, not an invitation to pitch. One was a photographer's portfolio with a contributor path attached. Both matched the search phrase perfectly and neither is a place to send a solar piece.
Trade press and consumer blogs want opposite things
The higher-scored sites in this table are trade and policy publications. They want grid data, procurement detail and project economics, and they will turn down a piece that explains what a photovoltaic cell is.
The consumer end wants exactly that explainer, plus payback periods and installer selection. Sending the wrong one to the wrong publication is the most common way a solar pitch fails, and it fails before anyone forms a view about your company.
Read two or three recent pieces before you write. The guidelines rarely spell out which side of the line a publication sits on, and the archive always does.
What to send a solar editor
Numbers you own are the currency here. A commissioning timeline, an installed cost breakdown, a curtailment figure or a measured yield over a year will be read by both sides of the vertical. Opinion about the energy transition will not, because every submission contains some.
Avoid the subsidy explainer unless you have something new. It is the single most submitted piece in this niche and it dates the moment a scheme changes. The equivalent trap in roofing is the material comparison every manufacturer sends.
Our guest post pitch template covers structure, and the subject line guide covers whether the mail is opened.
What a solar placement is worth
For an installer, a regional consumer site that reaches homeowners in your service area beats a national policy journal, whatever the two scores say. For a manufacturer or a software vendor selling into the industry, the reverse holds and it is not close.
Decide which of those you are before you pick from the table. We would judge the audience first and treat the score as a way to triage thirteen rows rather than an answer.
Frequently asked questions
Do these solar sites accept guest posts for free?
The 13 listed invite pitches without naming a fee. Five sites we checked did name one and were removed for it. Across MentionAgent's own outreach, 28.3 percent of classified replies were about money rather than a yes or a no, so expect a price to come up on some of these once you write in.
How recently was this solar list checked?
Every submission page was fetched on 22 September 2026. On an earlier rebuild of our niche guest-posting pages, 29 of 101 previously published domains failed to verify again after 11 days. These lists decay in days, not months, which is why the date is on the page.
Why are the big solar trade titles missing?
Because most of them commission rather than take contributions, or because their page answered our crawler with a challenge instead of content. Twenty-six solar candidates were blocked that way. We record those as blocked rather than dead and leave them off, because we could not read the page ourselves.
Should I pitch solar or renewable energy sites?
Search both. They are different phrasings that surface different populations, which is why this crawl ran six terms rather than one. The renewable phrasing brings in wind, storage and policy publications, and several of those will take a solar piece that is framed around the wider grid.
What Open PageRank should a solar site have before I pitch?
The list is cut at 2.0 to match our master list, but use it as a filter and not a ranking. A trade publication that procurement managers read is worth more to a vendor than a higher-scored consumer site, and for an installer the opposite is true.
Is a solar guest post worth writing in 2026?
It is worth writing when the piece would have been commissioned anyway. Only 2.2 percent of the classified replies to MentionAgent's own outreach ended in a confirmed link, so volume pitching is not the lever. A single piece carrying data nobody else has will outperform a dozen generic submissions.