Solar & Battery Storage.

Not for homeowner-purchased systems. The federal Residential Clean Energy Credit (Section 25D) ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. Third-party-owned systems (leases and PPAs) can still capture federal value through the commercial 48E credit claimed by the provider. Texas incentives remain: a 100% property tax exemption on the value solar adds to your home (Texas Tax Code Section 11.27), solar buyback plans from retail electricity providers, and utility battery programs. We quote real post-credit economics — no outdated incentive math.

For many homes, yes — but not all, and we will tell you honestly. The math depends on your usage, your electricity plan, and your roof. What still works in 2026: North Texas gets roughly 230+ sunny days a year, the property tax exemption protects your home value, buyback plans credit exported power, and pairing a battery with time-of-use or free-nights plans lets you store cheap power and use it at peak rates. If your roof or usage profile does not pencil out, we would rather keep you as an HVAC customer than sell you a bad solar system.

Solar alone will not — grid-tied systems shut down automatically during an outage for line-worker safety (anti-islanding, NEC rapid shutdown). Add an Enphase IQ Battery and the system islands: it disconnects from the grid and keeps your essential circuits, or your whole home, running from stored solar power. That distinction matters in Texas, where ERCOT conservation alerts and storm outages are a yearly reality.

Each panel gets its own microinverter, so one shaded or failed panel does not drag down the array, there is no single point of failure, and you get panel-level monitoring from day one. We are an Enphase Certified Installer with PVOL101 and IREC-accredited training, and the IQ Battery integrates natively with the same ecosystem.

Yes, end to end: city permits, utility interconnection, and monitoring handoff at commissioning. On HOAs — Texas Property Code Section 202.010 sharply limits an HOA’s ability to prohibit solar devices; they can regulate placement within reason but generally cannot ban a code-compliant installation. We prepare the HOA submittal package as part of the project.

The on-roof installation is typically one to three days. The full timeline — site assessment, design, permitting, utility approval, installation, inspection, and permission to operate — usually runs several weeks and varies by city and utility. We manage every step and keep you posted at each gate.