For Colorado homeowners
Solar in Colorado, from a company that won't pretend to know your utility before we've checked.
Solar Assure is licensed and taking projects in Colorado. We're newer here than in Missouri and Kansas, so we're not going to invent city-specific numbers to sound more established than we are. What we will do is tell you exactly how Colorado's net metering law actually works, including the part most sites skip: it doesn't apply to every utility in the state.
- Net metering applies to investor-owned utilities only. Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy customers are covered by Colorado's net metering mandate (C.R.S. 40-2-124). Cooperative and municipal utilities are not.
- Honest $2.50 per watt pricing. The same published rate we quote everywhere, no teaser price that changes after a home visit.
- No invented local numbers. We don't have Colorado utility rate or production data loaded into our calculator yet. We'll tell you that upfront and get you real numbers from a person instead.
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Why we're saying this upfront
We'd rather tell you what we don't know yet than make it up.
Solar Assure built its reputation in Missouri and Kansas on giving homeowners honest numbers instead of a sales pitch. Colorado is a newer market for us, and we're carrying the same rule over: no city-specific facts, utility rates, or production figures on this page unless we've actually verified them. Where we don't have a number yet, we say so, and a real quote fills in the gap with your specific address and utility.
The statute that matters most
Colorado net metering: who's actually covered.
This is the one fact that changes the math more than any other in Colorado, and it's the fact most sites skip.
Colorado's net metering mandate (C.R.S. 40-2-124(1)(e)(I)(B), implemented through Public Utilities Commission Rule 4 CCR 723-3-3664) requires investor-owned utilities to offer net metering to residential solar customers. In practice that means Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy customers are covered by the state mandate.
The mandate explicitly excludes cooperative electric associations and municipally-owned utilities. If your home is served by a rural electric cooperative, or by a municipal utility such as Fort Collins Utilities or Colorado Springs Utilities, net metering is not required by this state law. Those utilities set their own rules, which may look similar to net metering, may be less generous, or may work differently. We check which utility serves your specific address before we quote, precisely because this distinction changes the payback math.
On the tax side: Colorado has no state income tax credit for solar panels themselves. The one state credit that touches residential solar, the Residential Energy Storage Systems Credit (C.R.S. 39-22-546), applies only to a qualifying home battery's purchase price, not the panels or installation labor. Solar generation equipment is exempt from Colorado sales and use tax (C.R.S. 39-26-724), and batteries carry their own separate sales/use tax exemption (C.R.S. 39-26-733).
Common questions
Colorado solar, answered honestly.
Does Colorado have a state tax credit for solar panels?
No, not for the panels themselves. Colorado has no state income tax credit for residential solar PV. The one state credit that touches residential solar is the Residential Energy Storage Systems Credit (C.R.S. 39-22-546), and it applies only to a qualifying battery's purchase price, not the solar panels, inverters, or installation labor. Colorado does exempt solar generation equipment from state sales and use tax (C.R.S. 39-26-724), and batteries have their own separate sales/use tax exemption (C.R.S. 39-26-733).
Is net metering guaranteed everywhere in Colorado?
No, and this is the single most important fact for a Colorado homeowner to know before going solar. Colorado's net metering mandate (C.R.S. 40-2-124) applies only to investor-owned utilities, meaning Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy. It does not apply to cooperative electric associations or municipally-owned utilities. If your home is served by a rural electric cooperative or a municipal utility such as Fort Collins Utilities or Colorado Springs Utilities, net metering is not state-mandated for you, and the local utility's own rules govern instead. Solar Assure checks which utility serves your address before quoting so you know which set of rules applies to your home.
How much does solar cost in Colorado?
Solar Assure prices residential solar at $2.50 per watt installed, the same published rate across every state we serve. We do not yet have Colorado-specific utility rate or production data built into our online calculator, so the numbers it shows for a Colorado address are national averages, not a Colorado-specific estimate. A real quote requires a person to confirm your local utility, rate, and roof-specific production, which Josh or Tori will do personally after you reach out.
Is Solar Assure licensed to install solar in Colorado?
Yes. Solar Assure is licensed in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois and Colorado. We are newer to Colorado than to our home markets of Missouri and Kansas, so we are upfront about that: we don't have a long local install history here yet, and we are not going to invent city-specific facts or pricing to sound more established than we are. What we do have is the same $2.50/watt honest pricing, the same founder-answers-the-phone model, and the same willingness to tell you if solar doesn't make sense for your home.
Is the federal solar tax credit still available in 2026?
No. The 30 percent federal residential solar tax credit under Internal Revenue Code Section 25D expired December 31, 2025 under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21). Any company advertising a 30 percent federal credit for a new 2026 residential solar purchase in Colorado is either describing a third-party-owned lease or PPA arrangement (a different, commercial-side credit) or is out of date.
Josh founded Solar Assure with his wife Tori in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri. Solar Assure is licensed in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois and Colorado. For Colorado specifically, Josh personally checks which utility serves your address, since Colorado's net metering mandate covers Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy customers but not cooperative or municipal utility customers, before any numbers are quoted.
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