Solar Panel Cost in Utah (2026)
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- Average system size
- $2.65/W
- Average cost (USD)
- 11 yrs
- Average payback
- 130+
- Local installers
Why solar in Utah
Utah has excellent sun and two features that make its solar arithmetic unlike almost anywhere else. First, Rocky Mountain Power, which supplies more than 80 percent of the state, moved off net metering: anyone who applied for interconnection after October 30, 2020 is on Schedule 137 Net Billing, where generation is netted against household use instantaneously and only the surplus flowing to the grid earns an export credit, around 4.855 cents per kWh in summer and 4.033 in winter as of March 1, 2026 against a retail rate closer to 12 or 13 cents. Second, that export credit is recalculated every year and the new figure applies to existing customers as well as new ones, so there is no rate locked in for the life of your system. The Utah residential solar tax credit has also gone: it phased down from $2,000 to $400 and reached zero for systems installed from 2024 onward, and the 30 percent federal residential credit ended for property placed in service after December 31, 2025.
Incentives & rebates
Net metering: Schedule 137 Net Billing, instantaneous, annually reset
Utah no longer offers net metering to new residential solar customers on Rocky Mountain Power. Anyone who applied for interconnection after October 30, 2020 is on Schedule 137 Net Billing Service. Net billing differs from net metering in a way that changes how a system should be designed: generation is netted against household consumption instantaneously rather than across a billing period, so electricity you are using at the moment it is generated displaces the full retail rate, while anything beyond your instantaneous demand is exported and earns the export credit rate instead. As of March 1, 2026 that credit was approximately 4.855 cents per kWh for summer exports, defined as June through September, and 4.033 cents per kWh for winter exports from October through May, against a Utah residential retail rate around 12 to 13 cents. So an exported kilowatt hour is worth roughly a third of a self-consumed one. The second feature matters as much as the first. The export credit is recalculated annually and takes effect each March 1, and the revised rate applies to existing customers as well as new ones. Customers do not lock in a rate at installation, and the figure has fallen across successive recalculations. Utah municipal utilities such as Provo City Power and Murray City Power are outside Schedule 137 and set their own terms.
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How payback works in Utah
- System cost
- $21,200
- Estimated net cost
- $21,200
- Estimated payback
- ~13.1 years
- 25-year net savings
- ~$19,300
These figures are illustrative; your actual quote reflects your roof, sun exposure, and local utility rates.
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