Kansas · Tax exemption
KS Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption
Removes a tax burden residential solar owners in Kansas would otherwise carry -- see what it covers, eligibility, and payback impact below.
- Full property tax ex…
- stated benefit
- Residential
- eligible customers
- 13.7 yr
- Kansas baseline payback
- 2030-12-31
- authorization through
What it means
In Kansas, a 6 kW system already pays back in about 13.7 years on ~$1,203/year of modeled savings, and the KS Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption stacks on top of that, on top of any federal credit.
- Full property …
- stated benefit
- 13.7 yr
- baseline payback (pre-incentive)
- 3
- Kansas programs that stack
- full
- net-metering policy
Payback and savings are modeled from public NREL/EIA data; the program benefit is summarized from DSIRE and may change.
Program description
Kansas exempts solar and wind energy systems from property tax for 10 years.
Program at a glance
- Program type
- Tax exemption
- Eligible customers
- Residential
- Stated benefit
- Full property tax exemption
- Authorization through
- 2030-12-31
- State electricity rate
- 13.2¢/kWh
- Kansas solar score
- 32/100
How Kansas compares to the U.S. average
Why this incentive matters more (or less) here - Kansas's solar fundamentals against the national average.
Source: NREL irradiance and U.S. EIA rates; payback modeled by PlainSolarData. Bars are scaled to the larger of the two values per metric.
Solar's trajectory in Kansas
The market this incentive operates in: total installed solar capacity in Kansas reported to the EIA.
Kansas's solar incentive stack
How this tax exemption sits among Kansas's 2 tracked programs, by type
- Tax exemption
Tax exemption
1 programs
- Net metering
Net metering
1 programs
What this shows Kansas tracks 2 incentive types; 1 are tax exemptions like this one, removing a cost solar owners would otherwise carry, on top of the state's other program types.
How this incentive fits Kansas's solar picture
The KS Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption removes a tax burden solar owners would otherwise carry, one of Kansas's DSIRE-tracked solar incentive programs. Eligibility is scoped to residential customers, with a stated benefit of Full property tax exemption. Its authorization runs through 2030-12-31, so eligibility and funding can change before then if program caps are reached.
That baseline is slower than most states, which raises the stakes for every incentive on the table. Kansas averages 5.2 kWh/m²/day of usable sunlight and residential rates of 13.2¢/kWh, producing an estimated 9,110 kWh/year and $1,203 of annual utility offset on a typical 6 kW system costing $16,500. That baseline already implies a 13.7-year simple payback and a 25-year modeled net of roughly $13,575 before this incentive - every dollar this tax exemption delivers compresses that payback further.
A handful of other levers are worth checking alongside this one. Kansas has 3 solar incentive programs indexed in DSIRE, including adjacent options like KS Net Metering. The state's net-metering policy is classified as full, which governs how excess generation is credited and often decides whether a given program is worth claiming for a specific household.
Your next step
- See Kansas's full solar profile, score, irradiance, rates, payback, and every program you can claim. Kansas solar data
- Run the savings calculator with your real bill to see how this incentive changes your own payback. ROI calculator
- Read how state and federal solar credits work together. Tax-credit guide
Estimates here are modeled from public data and are not financial advice; confirm program terms and your own eligibility before relying on a dollar figure.
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Incentive data from the DSIRE (Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency); state solar economics from NREL and the U.S. EIA. See our methodology.