For Illinois homeowners
Solar in Illinois, with the net metering change most sites haven't caught up on.
Solar Assure is licensed and taking projects in Illinois. Full retail net metering ended for new customers on January 1, 2025. A lot of the sites still ranking for Illinois solar searches haven't updated their math for that. We're not going to pretend the old rules still apply, and we're not going to invent city-specific numbers to sound more established than we are here.
- Post-January-2025 net metering, explained straight. New systems credit kilowatt-hour supply charges only, not delivery charges. We'll show you what that means for your bill.
- Honest $2.50 per watt pricing. The same published rate we quote everywhere, no teaser price that changes after a home visit.
- No promised incentives we can't back up. We don't yet hold Illinois Shines Approved Vendor status, so we won't promise that payment until we do.
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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. Illinois 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 law that matters most
Illinois net metering, after January 1, 2025.
This is the change that most competitor pages haven't caught up on, and it's the fact that changes the math the most.
Under 220 ILCS 5/16-107.5(n), part of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (effective September 15, 2021), full retail net metering ended for new customers on and after January 1, 2025. A new Illinois solar customer today receives a 1:1 credit only against kilowatt-hour supply charges (energy, capacity, transmission, and purchased energy adjustment), not delivery charges. You remain responsible for delivery charges, kW-based supply charges, and related taxes and fees.
If your system was interconnected and net-metered before January 1, 2025, you keep full retail net metering for the lifetime of that system. That benefit is grandfathered: it survives a change of electricity supplier, and it transfers with the property if you sell the home.
On incentives: Illinois has no state income tax credit for residential solar. The property tax relief available (35 ILCS 200/10-10) is an alternate valuation, not an automatic exemption, and requires filing with your county's chief county assessment officer. We are not yet an Illinois Shines Approved Vendor, so we do not promise that incentive on this page; we'll update it the day that changes.
Common questions
Illinois solar, answered honestly.
Did Illinois net metering change recently?
Yes, and most sites ranking for Illinois solar terms have not caught up. Under 220 ILCS 5/16-107.5(n) (set by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, effective September 15, 2021), full retail net metering ended for new customers on and after January 1, 2025. A new Illinois solar customer today gets a 1:1 credit only against kilowatt-hour supply charges, not delivery charges, and remains responsible for delivery charges, kW-based supply charges, and related taxes and fees. If your system was already net-metered before January 1, 2025, you keep full retail net metering for the lifetime of that system, and the benefit is grandfathered even if you switch electricity suppliers or sell the home.
Is there a state tax credit for solar in Illinois?
No state income tax credit for residential solar exists in Illinois. There is a property tax provision, but it is not an automatic exemption: 35 ILCS 200/10-10 lets a solar-equipped home be valued at the lesser of its solar-equipped value or its value with a conventional heating and cooling system, but the homeowner must file for this alternate valuation with their county's chief county assessment officer, and must notify the assessor within 30 days if the system stops being used.
How much does solar cost in Illinois?
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 Illinois-specific utility rate or production data built into our online calculator, so the numbers it shows for an Illinois address are national averages, not an Illinois-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.
Can Solar Assure get me an Illinois Shines incentive payment?
Not yet, and we're not going to promise one we can't back up. Illinois Shines requires an installer to hold Approved Vendor or Designee status and an active ICC Distributed Generation Installer Certificate, which is a separate multi-week qualification process. We'll update this page the day that changes. Until then, we quote Illinois solar on its honest post-net-metering-change math alone, without assuming an incentive we don't yet have standing to deliver.
Is Solar Assure licensed to install solar in Illinois?
Yes. Solar Assure is licensed in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois and Colorado. We are newer to Illinois 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.
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 Illinois specifically, Josh personally walks every customer through what the January 2025 net metering change means for their specific system before any numbers are quoted.
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