Rebates & incentives
The money on the table, stated plainly.
Austin Energy raised its solar rebate to $4,000 this month. The federal credit for homeowners, meanwhile, ended in January. Here is the honest picture — what exists, what does not, and what it takes to actually collect.
Austin Energy
A $4,000 rebate, and a credit on every kilowatt-hour.
If you are an Austin Energy customer, this is the largest incentive available to you, and it got 60% bigger on 1 July 2026.
$4,000
per project
For systems larger than 3 kW-DC. Raised from $2,500 on 1 July 2026.
9.91¢
per kWh produced
Credited on 100% of what your array makes, whether you use it or export it. Unused credit rolls over month to month.
Austin Energy has published an increase to 12.88¢ from 1 October 2026 — proposed, and still subject to the Austin City Council budget review.
Five conditions, and one of them has a deadline
- Your rebate confirmation letter must be issued before installation begins. Start early and the rebate is gone — this is the one that catches people.
- You need an active Austin Energy residential account at the install address.
- You have to complete Austin Energy's Solar Rebate Quiz.
- The work must be done by a participating contractor.
- One rebate per address: if the property has had one since May 2018, it does not qualify again.
Commercial & nonprofit
Commercial and nonprofit
Austin Energy pays businesses and nonprofits either on capacity or on production, and these rates rose on 1 July 2026 too.
Paid on capacity
A one-time payment per watt installed.
- Nonprofit, under 200 kW
- $1.00 per watt
- For-profit, under 100 kW
- $0.70 per watt
Paid on production
Paid on what the array actually makes, over five years.
- Under 400 kW
- $0.10 per kWh
- 400 – 999 kW
- $0.08 per kWh
- 1,000 kW and above
- $0.06 per kWh
Performance-based incentives are paid on actual production over five years. The Value of Solar credit applies on top of the rebate either way.
Federal tax credit
The 30% homeowner credit is gone. We won't pretend otherwise.
The residential clean energy credit (Section 25D) ended for systems placed in service after 31 December 2025, under the budget act signed in July 2025. There was no phase-down — it went from 30% to nothing on 1 January 2026. If a salesperson is still quoting you 30% on a home system you own, walk away.
We install solar, we don't file your taxes. Confirm anything credit-related with your CPA before you count on it.
Businesses still have a credit
The commercial investment credit (48E) remains, with its own eligibility and timing rules. If you are installing on a business, this is worth modelling properly.
Third-party ownership is a different path
Under a lease or power purchase agreement the system owner claims the commercial credit, which can show up as a lower payment for you. It also means you do not own the array. We will tell you honestly whether that trade is worth it in your case.
Anywhere in Texas
Two things that apply no matter who bills you.
Your property taxes should not go up
Texas exempts the added appraised value of an owned solar device from property tax, under Tax Code 11.27. You have to claim it: file Form 50-123 with your county appraisal district by 30 April. We will tell you what to attach.
Form 50-123Your utility may have its own rebate
Texas has no statewide solar rebate, so what you can claim comes down to who your utility is — and the amounts move year to year. We check yours before quoting rather than after.
Utilities we regularly file with
- CPS Energy (San Antonio)
- Oncor (Dallas–Fort Worth)
- CenterPoint (Houston)
- Pedernales Electric Cooperative
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
- Denton Municipal Electric
- Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative
How we handle it
We do the paperwork, and we tell you the number before you sign.
We check what you actually qualify for
Your utility, your account status, your roof, and whether the address has already used its rebate. Before a quote, not after.
We file first, then build
The Austin Energy confirmation letter comes before we put anything on your roof. Doing it the other way round forfeits the rebate, and we are not willing to cost you $4,000 to start a week earlier.
The quote shows incentives separately
You see the system price and the incentives as separate lines, so you can tell what you are paying and what you are counting on. No blended 'net cost' figure hiding the assumptions.
We flag what is not guaranteed
Proposed rates, programs with annual caps, anything pending approval — called out as such. You should never be surprised by an incentive that did not arrive.
Figures on this page were verified on 31 July 2026. Incentive programs change, sometimes mid-year, and some carry annual caps that can be exhausted. We confirm what you qualify for in writing before you sign anything — call (512) 827-3775 if you want the current position on yours.
Want to know what you'd actually get?
Tell us your address and who bills you for power. We will come back with the incentives you qualify for — including if the answer is that there aren't many.
Get your quote
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Two short steps. We'll come back with a real design and a real number — not a range designed to get us in your door.
- No pressure to sign anything in your kitchen.
- A real production model, not a savings range.
- The person who quotes it is the person who sees it through.
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(512) 827-3775