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Solar incentives by state
With the federal residential credit gone, what you can claim for solar is now almost entirely a function of your state and — more often than people expect — of which utility sends your bill. Two customers on opposite sides of the same city line can face different programs.
These pages are built from primary sources: state statutes read at the state's own revisor, agency program pages, and the administering utility's own terms. Every entry shows when it was last checked.
The twelve launch states
We are building state by state rather than publishing fifty thin pages, because a state page is only worth anything if someone has actually read the statutes and the utility tariffs behind it. Each one goes live when it is verified, not before.
What is on a state page
- Every live program, as a card — what it pays, who administers it, the full eligibility list, the application window, and whether you have to own the system for it to count.
- Net metering or net billing, broken out by system size and utility type, cited to the statute.
- Whether there is an SREC market a homeowner can actually sell into. Usually the answer is no, and that is worth knowing before a salesperson implies otherwise.
- What changed this year, dated, with sources — including programs that quietly narrowed rather than closed.
- Who is licensed to install, and the state's own roster to check a company against.
Why ownership is labeled on every program
Because since January it is the question that decides the money. Federal law now favors a third party owning the panels on your roof; state and utility programs overwhelmingly still require you to own them. A financing structure that captures one can forfeit the other. Buying versus leasing in 2026 works through it, and Minnesota is a good worked example because it contains both rules at once.