For Texas homeowners
Solar in Texas, without pretending net metering is guaranteed.
Solar Assure is licensed and taking projects in Texas. Texas has no statewide net metering mandate, and whether a utility buys your surplus power, and at what rate, depends entirely on who serves your address. We'll tell you that plainly instead of promising a credit the law doesn't actually require.
- No statewide net metering mandate. PURA 39.916 permits but does not require a utility to buy surplus power. We check your specific utility or REP before quoting.
- A real property tax exemption exists. Texas Tax Code 11.27 exempts the added home value from a solar system, filed via Comptroller Form 50-123.
- Honest $2.50 per watt pricing. The same published rate we quote everywhere, no teaser price that changes after a home visit.
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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. Texas 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
Texas net metering: permitted, not required.
This is the fact most sites blur together, and it's the one that actually determines your payback math.
Texas has no statewide net metering mandate. Public Utility Regulatory Act Section 39.916 is permissive language: a utility or retail electric provider "may" contract to purchase a customer's surplus distributed renewable generation, but nothing in the statute compels them to buy it or sets the price they must pay. PURA 39.916 defines distributed renewable generation as systems up to 2,000 kW and requires the utility to provide metering, though the owner may be responsible for the cost of differential metering unless that cost is waived.
In deregulated ERCOT areas, if your surplus power is purchased at all, the rate is negotiated between you and your retail electric provider, not a fixed statewide credit. That means the value of exported solar power varies a great deal depending on which REP or utility serves your specific address, which is why we confirm that before quoting rather than assuming one statewide number.
On taxes: Texas has no state personal income tax and, since a 2019 constitutional amendment (Texas Constitution, Article VIII, Section 24-a), cannot create one for individuals, so there is no state income tax credit for solar. There is a real property tax exemption for the value solar adds to your home, under Tax Code Section 11.27, filed with your county appraisal district using Comptroller Form 50-123.
Common questions
Texas solar, answered honestly.
Does Texas require utilities to offer net metering?
No. Texas has no statewide net metering mandate. PURA 39.916 is permissive, not mandatory: it allows a utility or retail electric provider to contract to buy a customer's surplus solar generation, but it does not require them to, and it does not set the price. In deregulated ERCOT areas, the rate for exported surplus power is negotiated between you and your retail electric provider, not a fixed statewide credit. That means the deal you get depends heavily on which REP or utility serves your specific address, and we check that before quoting.
Is there a Texas property tax exemption for solar?
Yes, this one is real and straightforward. Texas Tax Code 11.27 provides a property tax exemption for the added home value from a solar energy device, filed with your county appraisal district using Comptroller Form 50-123. Texas also has no state personal income tax, and in fact cannot create one for individuals: Article VIII, Section 24-a of the Texas Constitution, approved by voters in 2019, bans a state tax on individual net income. So there is no state income tax credit for solar, but there was never going to be one for anything.
How much does solar cost in Texas?
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 Texas-specific utility rate or production data built into our online calculator, so the numbers it shows for a Texas address are national averages, not a Texas-specific estimate. Because Texas has four different regulatory regimes depending on your utility and whether you're in deregulated ERCOT territory, a real quote genuinely needs a person to confirm which rules apply to your specific address before we can give you real numbers.
Is Solar Assure licensed to install solar in Texas?
Yes. Solar Assure is licensed in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois and Colorado. We are newer to Texas 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, utility rates, or pricing to sound more established than we are.
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 Texas 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 Texas specifically, Josh personally checks which utility or retail electric provider serves your address, since Texas's surplus-power rules vary by regulatory regime, before any numbers are quoted.
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