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Solar incentives · Louisiana · 2026
Solar rebates in Louisiana.
The federal, state, and utility solar incentives available in Louisiana for 2026, then matched to a vetted local installer.
Programs · Louisiana
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Avoided cost outside New Orleans; net metering within it · verified 2026-09-01
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Tax credit
#01
Federal Residential Clean Energy Credit (Section 25D) - ENDED
The 30 percent federal Residential Clean Energy Credit under Section 25D expired for property placed in service after December 31, 2025. Cash and loan purchases made now receive no federal tax credit, and Louisiana state solar tax credit expired on December 31, 2017, so there is nothing at either level.
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#02
Federal Commercial ITC (Section 48E) - via Lease / PPA
Section 48E, the commercial Clean Electricity Investment Credit, survives at 30 percent and is available to third-party owners of residential systems under leases and power purchase agreements. The provider claims it and may reflect part of the value in the rate offered. Ask what they claim and what actually reaches you, and confirm with a tax advisor.
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#03
Louisiana Solar Tax Credit - EXPIRED December 31, 2017
Louisiana ran a generous residential solar tax credit that expired on December 31, 2017 and has not been renewed. It is long enough gone that most current material no longer lists it, but older guides and calculators still circulate. A quote citing a Louisiana state solar tax credit is describing a programme that ended nearly a decade ago.
Net metering
#04
LPSC two-channel billing - avoided cost for exports
In September 2019 the Louisiana Public Service Commission changed the rules for distributed generation. Customers who installed or applied after December 31, 2019 pay full retail for electricity purchased from the utility, pay nothing for solar energy they consume themselves, and receive avoided-cost compensation for electricity exported to the grid. Against a Louisiana average around 12 cents per kWh, avoided-cost export credits have run near 3 cents. The Commission publishes an Avoided Cost Rate by Electric Utility each year, so the figure is reset annually and differs by utility.
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#05
Pre-2020 grandfathering - 15 years of retail net metering
Customers who installed solar before January 1, 2020 keep full retail net metering for 15 years. After that period, excess generation from those systems is credited at the avoided cost rate like everyone else. That makes the installation date a material fact when buying a home with an existing array, and it makes the remaining term a specific number worth establishing rather than assuming.
Program
#06
New Orleans is regulated by the City Council, not the LPSC
Entergy New Orleans is regulated by the New Orleans City Council rather than the Louisiana Public Service Commission. New Orleans is the only city council in the United States besides the District of Columbia with separate regulatory authority over its electric and gas utilities. The Commission rules effective January 1, 2020 do not apply to Entergy New Orleans customers, and the Council rules require net metering to be offered. A proposal to move Entergy New Orleans customers to Commission oversight has been raised, so confirm current status before relying on it long term.
Tax credit
#07
Property Tax Exemption
Louisiana exempts the value that a residential solar energy system adds to a property from property taxation, which with the tax credits gone is now the main state-level incentive a Louisiana homeowner receives. It arrives as an absence rather than a payment. Confirm with your parish assessor what filing, if any, is required at your address.
Net metering · Louisiana
Avoided cost outside New Orleans; net metering within it
Louisiana has two different arrangements depending on who regulates your utility, and the difference is large. For utilities regulated by the Louisiana Public Service Commission, which is most of the state, the Commission changed the rules in September 2019. Customers who installed or applied after December 31, 2019 are on a two-channel arrangement: they pay the full retail rate for electricity purchased from the utility, they pay nothing for solar energy consumed on site as it is generated, and they receive avoided-cost compensation for electricity exported to the grid. Avoided cost is a wholesale-style measure and has run near 3 cents per kWh against a Louisiana retail average around 12 cents, so an exported kilowatt hour has been worth roughly a quarter of a self-consumed one. The Commission publishes an Avoided Cost Rate by Electric Utility each year, so the figure is reset annually and differs between utilities. Customers who installed before January 1, 2020 were grandfathered onto full retail net metering for 15 years, after which their excess is credited at avoided cost as well. New Orleans sits outside all of this. Entergy New Orleans is regulated by the New Orleans City Council, whose rules require net metering to be offered, and the Commission 2020 rules do not apply to its customers. The practical consequence everywhere outside New Orleans is that self-consumption is worth roughly four times export, so sizing to your daytime load, shifting flexible loads into daylight and considering storage all matter more here than the national conversation suggests.
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